Yves here. We picked up on the observation of the Financial Times’ John Dizard many years ago: that the shale industry would continue to engage in fundamentally unprofitable drilling as long as operators could borrow money, and that would continue for quite a while. The day of reckoning has finally arrived.
By Justin Mikulka, a freelance investigative journalist with a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University. Originally published at DeSmog Blog
“Drill, baby, drill is gone forever.”
That was the recent assessment of Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman of the American oil industry’s future potential. As Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz is one of the most influential voices in the global oil markets. Fortune termed it a “bold taunt,” and a warning to U.S. frackers to not increase oil production.
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