Les titres o&g se sont fait lessiver dans les derniers jours... J'aimerais avoir l'opinion des membres du forum qui suivent le secteur ? Êtes-vous acheteurs, vendeurs, neutres ? Moi, je suis plutôt de l’opinion que c’est une occasion d'achat. C'est dur de croire que le prix du pétrole va rester bas pour une période prolongée.
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Je pense que les ROI négatifs faussent un peu les chiffres - de même que le mélange entre oil et gas. Les chiffres sont toujours à relativiser.
For the first time ever, the North American oil industry has a high certainty of how much oil they can produce for the next 20-30 years—just insert a specific oil price.
Every other time that OPEC has squabbled and sent prices down, the US and Canada were chasing conventional oil pools with short reserve lifes—but not this time.
That’s not good for everybody, but it is for the low cost producers.
The negative side of this argument however, is that the Saudis need to see oil under $60/barrel to really inflict pain on North American producers.
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/is-oil-sands-development-still-worth-it/article21334385/?service=mobile&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links
Sinon, sur la thèse générale du pétrole et en partie du gaz, je ne saurais mieux dire que la dernière lettre de Grantham qui est un bijou. Il résume l'histoire du pétrole, le contexte économique et la problématique dans la façon dont on utilise cette ressource non-renouvelable aujourd'hui d'une brillante façon.
Ce petit paraphe en soi est très bon:
Oil Costs vs. Oil Prices
(or Oil Profits get Crushed!)
In the long run, when the costs of producing oil rise,
the prices will rise. But in the short run it is not always
the case, and in such occurrences it is easy to confuse
the effects of changes in costs with changes in prices.
When global oil costs rise, as they are currently doing,
global growth must suffer as we are forced to use more
of our capital per unit of oil discovered and thus limit
our capital investments in other growth opportunities.
This is true even if prices simultaneously fall due to a
temporary supply/demand imbalance. The current fall
in price does nothing to offset the squeeze on the total
economy from rising costs. It merely transfers massive
amounts of income from one subgroup (oil producers)
to another (oil consumers), in a largely zero-sum game.
Oil consumers tend to spend more and save less than
oil companies so short-term impacts are favorable.
But we should not be carried away with enthusiasm
because the declining investment from the oil industry
will lower future growth. When, as now, oil costs are still
rising even as prices fall there is of course a particularly
savage effect on the profits of oil companies, squeezed
from both ends. They must and will rapidly adapt by
reducing expenditures and therefore oil production with
the fairly obvious result that prices will rise again.
The only longer-term price relief and net benefit to
the economy will come when either we reverse recent
history and start to find more oil more cheaply, which
will be like waiting for pigs to fly, or when cheaper
sources of energy displace oil.
Sinon, l'ensemble de la lettre est une très bonne lecture pour qui s'intéresse au secteur et qui s'intéresse à l'histoire économique, à l'énergie et au futur de l'humanité! À partir de la page 12, ce texte: The Beginning of the End of the Fossil Fuel Revolution
(From Golden Goose to Cooked Goose):
http://www.gmo.com/websitecontent/GMO_QtlyLetter_3Q14_full.pdf
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http://www.nature.com/news/natural-gas-the-fracking-fallacy-1.16430