What Determines the Price of OIL Supply Demand Energy prices Energy prices OPEC & Non OPEC Capacity Economic Growth Spare Capacity Industrial Production Geo Politics Transportation E&P Cost & Investments Physical Balance Markets &…
Five significant downturn cycles during the past 30 years 160.00 US Financial Crisis US Shale Success Oil is a commodity, has always been Created a volatile mixture of Market Driven Economics volatile & will continue to be volatile.…
IEA World Crude Supply & Demand Missing Barrels Manipulation or Actual World Production Over/Under MMBbls./day MMBbls./day 98.0 2.50 The tally of unaccounted-for oil which comes from the difference between the 1.9 million b/d…
Global Rig Count Compared to Brent Crude Prices Active Rig Count Brent Crude 4500 Price135.00 Middle East Rig Count U.S. Rig Count Total World Rig Count Brent Spot Price ( per Bbl.) 130.00 125.00 4000 120.00 115.00 110.00 3500…
US Crude Production & Rig Count MMBbls/day Rig Count 10 2500 9.7 MMBbls/day April 2015 9 2000 8.79 MMBbls/day May 13th 2016 8 1500 7 1000 6 500 5 0 Baker Hughes, EIA 14
Fiscal Break-Even Price (Brent Crude, US /Bbl) 42.73 51.79 45.86 per Bbl. April 2016 Close 57.77 Turkmenistan 60.63 67.51 Kuwait 70.42 Qatar 75.90 2016 82.68 Azerbaijan 92.99 95.84 UAE 97.55 Iran 104.97 207.56 Iraq…
Budget Balance as Percentage of GDP 2014 2015 Rodger Andrew; Low Oil Price and Budget deficits & OPEC IMF 2015 World Economic Outlook 19
Market Sentiment, Wrong or Right The global price of crude is as ridiculously priced today as it was at 120 per barrel. A 2 percent oversupply in a world where we cannot even measure within 5 percent with any certainty, drops the price…
Midland Basin Wolfcamp Shale - Largest Discovery Ever Made in the U.S. 50 46.0 Wolfcamp is the largest oil discovery made in the U.S. Resource Potential (BBOE) 40 Approach is a pioneer in the Wolfcamp oil 30 shale horizontal…
Over View of Approach Operations 22
Established Infrastructure in Place Is Critical to Low Cost Structure Over 500 miles of pipelines in place More than 100 MMcfg/d gathering and gas lifting capacity Expandable up to 500 MMcfg/d One Centralized Super Water Recycle…
Enhanced Completion Design Drives Outperformance 140,000 2015 Wolfcamp B&C bench completions Average completed lateral length = 6886' 120,000 Reduced stage spacing (< 200) Increase percentage of 100 mesh sand Use of Recycled…
Centralized Compression Facilities and Gas Lifting Lines Necessity In Reducing Initial Capital Investments And Future Rental Costs 25
Well Pads Serviced by Centralized Compressor and Shared Gas Lift System Efficient and Significant Cost Saving Prod Wells Prod ell ell uctio Gas lift to W uctio Gas lift to W n to C n to C 500…
Water Recycling And Transportation Lines Must Have In Sustainable Large Scale Development 27
One of the Most Important Challenges in Developing the Wolfcamp Shale Play Availability of Frac Water A typical 7500 WFMP lateral in the Midland Basin uses more than 200,000 Bbls of water 13.5 billion barrels of water is required to…
Significant Cost Saving for Using Recycled Water for Fracing Cost for recycled water Flowback / Producing Well 2 per barrel Free Cost saving for using recycled water 0.25 per 2 - 3 per barrel barrel Via existing water…
AREX Flowback and Produced Water Recycle Facility Flowback / Produced Water 32,000 32,000 BBL BBL 20 Treated Flowback & Produced Frac Water Supply Line Treated Treated Water Water Tank Tank 8 Low Chloride Treated…
AREX Flowback and Produced Water Recycle Facility Designed one of the highest industry KPI for water treatment Bacteria Sulfates Heavy metals Fines Best practice for water conservation and improving water use efficiency…
AREX Water Recycling Facility Successfully Implemented Started up in March 2015 Ramped up during April 2015 Recycled up to 100% of AREX daily flowback/produced water volumes More than 2.2 million barrels of produced water treated in…
Summary Saudi Arabia is not solely responsible for the collapse of oil prices but rather a combina(on of US shale success, slowing economies, market condi;ons/herd mentality & misguided governmental policies. Oil is a commodity, has…