Month: September 2014

OPEC MOMR Update, August Production Numbers

Ron Patterson 107 Comments

The latest OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report is out with OPEC production numbers for August 2014. OPEC production was up 230,000 barrels per day but that was after July had been revised upward by 210,000 barrels per day. So OPEC production was up 430,000 bpd from what they reported last month.

OPEC 12

OPEC crude only production now stands at 30, 347,000 barrels per day, a one year high.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s production dropped 55,000 bpd in August but that was after their July production had been revised upward by 99,000 bpd.

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The EIA’s Drilling Productivity Report

Ron Patterson 168 Comments

The Eia’s latest Drilling Productivity Report is out. However they have only updated the PDF file. The spreadsheets have not been updated and still have last month’s data. But I will give you what the PDF file shows and perhaps add some charts tomorrow if they get around to updating the Excel spreadsheets.

DPR 1

The EIA says Bakken new wells will produce 100,000 bpd in October but all the old wells will decline by 73,000 bpd and leave a net increase of 27,000 bpd. If these numbers are correct and September production was 1,152,000 bpd then that means the monthly decline rate is 6.33%.

DPR 2

The EIA says Eagle Ford new wells will produce 154,000 bpd in October but all the old wells will decline by 123,000 bpd and leave a net increase of 31,000 bpd. If these numbers are correct and September production was 1,551,000 bpd then that means the monthly decline rate is 7.93%.
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Petroleum Supply Monthly and Other News

Ron Patterson 217 Comments

The EIA’s Petroleum Supply Monthly has just come out. That report gives production from individual states as well as offshore production.

The below chart is thousand barrels per day with the last data point June 2014.

GOM BSEE

For February, March and April there is about 60 thousand barrel per day difference between what the EIA and BSEE reports. Eventually the EIA and BSEE will be the same and it will be the EIA data that suffers the greatest revisions. I believe they have the June GOM numbers quite a bit too high here.

Texas 1

The EIA is still tweaking its guess as to what Texas production will be when it finally comes in.
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