Gas prices are still expected to stabilise heading into winter despite a recent rise in spot prices on European benchmarks, energy experts have said.
Ninepoint Energy Fund’s Eric Nuttall sees a strong year ahead for oil stocks, which have been lagging behind the surge in oil prices, citing unprecedented draws in oil inventories. Nuttall, who manages Canada’s largest energy mutual fund, says “the macro backdrop for oil has never been as positive” in his career, and while oil stocks are not soaring along with crude prices that have recently been flirting with $95 per barrel, this is the time to invest.
Despite the fact that U.S. oil producers are now deploying the lowest number of drilling rigs in more than a year and a half, America’s crude oil production is set to hit a monthly record in September—at 13 million barrels per day (bpd), according to estimates by Rystad Energy.
Since 25 March, hundreds of thousands of barrels per day of oil flows crucial to the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq (KRI) and important to the oil sector as a whole have been prevented from being exported to Turkey on the basis that they are regarded as illegal by the Federal Government of Iraq (FGI) in Baghdad.
Last week, Canada’s Prime Minister pledged to the UN General Assembly that he would cap emissions from the country’s oil and gas industry this year. Interestingly, the only leaders allowed to speak at the gathering were those who had made firm climate change commitments, and even though Trudeau was among them, he was criticized for the fact that “Canada was one of the largest expanders of fossil fuels last year,” per a CBC report.
The Ghana Upstream Petroleum Chamber Chief Executive, David Ampofo, has stressed the critical importance of expanding gas infrastructure and enhancing domestic gas utilisation to bolster energy security in Ghana.
The Ghana Upstream Petroleum Chamber has held its 2023 Ghana Oil and Gas Conference. The well-attended conference brought together over 500 participants from industry, government, banking, academia and numerous professional services with an interest in oil and gas.
Industry experts in the Oil and Gas sector have called for more investment in the sector to spur sustainable economic growth.
Promote a business-friendly regulatory environment in upstream petroleum sector – PIAC to government
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) is advising the government to promote a very business-friendly regulatory environment in the upstream petroleum sector to attract foreign investors.
Oil prices rose on Friday as concerns that a Russian ban on fuel exports could tighten global supply outweighed fears that further U.S. interest rate hikes could dent demand, but they were still headed for their first weekly loss in four weeks.