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Investing Topics: Oil prices

Planning for a Pullback

By Elliott H. Gue on Sep. 20, 2016

An environment where oil prices remain lower for longer favors US independent exploration and production companies that own high-quality assets in the lowest-cost shale plays.

The best upstream operators continue to reduce their per barrel production costs through efficiency gains and enhanced drilling and completion techniques that boost per-well output. Some of the strongest names can generate a decent return on capital with oil prices in the mid-$30s per barrel.

Despite significant volatility, crude-oil prices have trended lower since the beginning of June. Our near-term outlook calls for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) to tumble into the $30s per barrel over the next one to three months, a period of seasonally weak demand.

This weakness could create another opportunity to buy our favorite exploration and production names.

 

Talking Tankers

By Elliott H. Gue on Mar. 3, 2016

The supply-demand balance for oil tankers will weaken over the next two years, with capacity additions outstripping demand growth related to emerging trade routes, global production trends and increasing oil consumption. Nevertheless, many tanker stocks trade at valuations last seen when the market faced much bigger challenges. Meanwhile, the outlook for refined-product tankers looks better, with a smaller order book and Saudi Arabia’s growing focus on exported value-added products instead of crude oil expected to keep the supply-demand balance relatively tight.

Outlook 2016: Energy Prices

By Elliott H. Gue on Jan. 17, 2016

Our calls on crude-oil prices over the past year have been spot on for the most part. Although our macro calls haven’t saved our Portfolios from the carnage, we have avoided many of the worst performers, used hedges to provide some upside protection and set ourselves up to profit from the down-cycle’s final chapters. Here’s what we see for the year ahead.

Oil Prices and Geopolitics

By Elliott H. Gue on Dec. 7, 2015

The financial media tends to exaggerate the influence of geopolitical developments on oil prices, especially to explain daily moves in these commodities. But today’s market hold more in common with the 1990s, when the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil actually declined at the height of the Gulf War.

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