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WHAT KANGAROO COURT CREATEDOUR OIL AND GAS MARKETS?
Australian American Chamber of Commerce HoustonJanuary 29, 2009
Houston, TXBy:
Matthew R. Simmons, ChairmanSimmons & Company International
GEOPOLITICS MARKETS ECONOMY
DEMANDSUPPLY
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The Turmoil In Global Oil And Gas MarketsIs Ridiculous
Market structure for how we run worlds most importantbusiness must have beencreated by a kangaroo courtin the Billabong.
USSRs central planning dida better job than the freemarket system did for oiland gas.
We now have a turbulent market for oil, and worse forgas.
Left unchanged, it could destroy the global economy.
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Chaos In Current Energy Markets IsSerious And Getting Worse
But, it all did not have to happen this way.
The flashing signs of trouble ahead began two decadesago.
But, few wanted to listen to the naysayers and manywanted to hear from the optimists.
So, the kangaroo court ruled in favor if the optimists. Lets go back to a year ago and see what happened.
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2008: Oils Annus Horribilis
2008 started out so bright for oil markets: Rigs were fully employed Oil price was high but not
exorbitant Oil regions were booming
But, then came volatility: Prices spiked from $96 to $147
by early July (+53%) Prices took a breather through mid-September Then, prices plunged 74% in next 3 months
1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has
turned out to be an 'Annus Horribilis'. I suspect that I am not alone in thinking it so. Indeed, I suspect that there are very few people or institutions unaffected by these last months of worldwide turmoil and uncertainty.
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The Big Question As2008 Came Crashing To An End
Why did prices spike so high?
Why did oil prices then crash?
Many pundits answered byobserving: Prices spiked because
of speculation Prices collapsed because:
Speculators went AWOLOil demand began toplungeOil gluts quickly emerged
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The Spike And The Collapse Were Asymmetric
The spike topped off a 15 foldincrease from under $10 in1998 to $147 in 2008.
The 3 month plunge took oilprices back to where they werein November 2003.
Were both anomalies?Will we ever know?
?
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January 2009 Was Not A Good Month
Oil price collapse came to an end. But, price volatility continued to create chaos. And, almost all major supply advances slowed or were
stopped. North American rig count plunged. Rumors of oil glut grew. Rumors of vast amounts of oil stored on tankers grew
rapidly. And, reported oil inventories stayed tight in many key
regions.
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What Is A Fair Price For Oil?
Oil prices will stay at $5 for adecade or two.(The Economist cover story March, 1999)
$27 oil price is fair.(British Petroleums Lord Browne October, 2004)
$30 - $45 oil price is fair.(Shells John Huffmeister January 6, 2008)
$75 oil price is fair.(King Abdullah of Saudi Aramco December 2008)
Maybe oil is soplentiful that it
has no fair price!
Multiple Quiz
Fools Gold?Just another commodity?Worlds most preciousnatural resource?
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Nothing Goes Straight Up!
Oil price 15 fold rise had manyretractions.
But each dip soon became a new
high. These are normal
prices.
When inflation adjusted(CPI) the picturealtered.
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Why Did Prices Rise 15 Fold In A Decade?
1997 2007 fundamentals changed: Demand grew by 12.7 MMB/D Crude oil production grew by
7.3 MMB/D
Gap was filled by:Increased natural gas liquidsOther liquidsRefinery processing gainsOccasional stock liquidation
OECD total petroleum stocks:12/1997: 2,615 million (56 days use)12/2007: 2,566 million (52 days use)
Along the way, speculators often shorted oil contracts.
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Why Did Crude Supply Not Keep PaceWith Demand Growth?
E&P spending grew from less than $100 billion to$400 billion in the decade.
By 2008, every quality drilling rig (and other oil service
assets) were employed. Technology gains allowed deepwater/ultra deepwater
exploration.
Seismic advances and reservoir simulation modelingallowed greater amounts of trapped oil to be drained.
But, all this still created flattening of crude oil supply in last few years.
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Did Oil Field Technology Not Work?
If so many new wells weredrilled and so much moneyspent, was it wasted?
No. These projects werecritical to offset acceleratingdecline rates from maturefields.
The big problem: All new discoveries were either small or in deepwater All peak fast and decline fast
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Long-Term Supply Trend GotUglier By The Year
>800 super-giant, giant and largeoil fields comprise 58% of worldscrude supply.
Other 42% comes from 70,000small to tiny fields (average fieldproduction 440 bbls/day).
Foundations of worlds oil supplycomes from 356 super-giant oilfields. Almost all are matureand past peak.
IEAs WEO 2008 Supply Outlooklaid bare some ugly facts.
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The Era Of Cheap Oil Is Over(IEA November 14, 2008)
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Has Crude Oil Now Peaked?
Hard data argues thatsustained peak supplyreached in 2005.
Too many key producing
countries are now inirreversible productiondecline.
Only a handful of keyproducers have some growth
left: Angola Brazil Sudan (?) Canadas heavy oil (?) Source: EIA Monthly Energy Report March 2008
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Detailed Peek IntoWhy Crude Oil Peaked In 2005
When only 9 key producing countries show any significant growth, bad sign.
When rest of world collectively falls by almost 5 MMB/D, terrible sign!
*Now in decline, too.
Source: Highly regarded confidential supply model.
Major Increased Crude 2005 2008 Change
Russia* 9,185 9,520 335Azerbaijan 454 895 441Kazakhstan 1,266 1,412 146China* 3,617 3,810 193Brazil 1,634 1,822 188Iraq 1,992 2,374 382Kuwait* 2,133 2,314 181Angola 1,228 1,847 619Sudan 305 480 175Total 21,814 24,474 2,660Rest of world crude 51,033 46,396 (4,637)Net change 72,847 70,870 (1,977)
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A New Look AtBest-In-Class Supply Model
Source: Highly regarded confidential supply model.
ConventionalNon-
Conventional ConventionalNon-
Conventional
USA 5,877 2,219 4,946 2,579Canada 1,358 1,698 1,409 1,832Mexico 3,333 429 2,804 368
UK 1,600 240 1,304 222Norway 2,506 463 1,941 530Other Europe 743 58 635 84Australia 452 89 472 77New Zealand, Japan 25 28 69 31Russia* 9,185 443 9,520 471Other FSO* 2,162 2,753E. Europe 158 123China* 3,617 3,810Other Asia 2,658 2,636Brazil* 1,634 356 1,822 448Other LA 2,273 1,738Non OPEC, Middle East 1,845 1,611Non OPEC, Africa, Middle East 3,682 2,593OPEC Crude 20,702 20,587Other OPEC 9,037 4,628 10,097 4,959
72,847 10,651 70,870 11,601
2005 2008
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Between 2005 And 2008, A Lot Happened
All worlds drilling rigs were finally at work.
Prices went up at furious pace.
Technology advanced ways to bring out more oil flows. E&P spending soared.
But, this did not impact rising decline rates for almostall important key oil fields.
And, it did not find any easily producible high qualitycrude oil.
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Supply Growth Coming FromJunk Crude (Crud)
In 2005, worlds NGL, bitumen, syncrudes and other supply totaled 10,651 MMB/D.
By 2008, these tough to
process non-conventionalcrudes grew to 11,598 MMB/D.
These slivers of junk crude arehard to grow and harder to
refine into light finishedproducts.
They are easy to turn into asphalt!
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The Supply Picture Is Not Pretty(And Explains $147 Oil)
There are no bright spots on supply horizon.
There are many flashing red lights indicatingall is not well:
Civil unrest in key oil producingregions Fragile aging infrastructure Accelerating decline rates due to oil field
technology
Visible oil stocks keep getting too tight.
These all explain why oil prices rose 15 fold.
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What Explains The Crude Oil Price Collapse?
Media and pundits say: Speculators left the game
that created spike Unraveling economy killed
off demand Gluts are now endemic:
Tank farms brimming with oilSuper-tankers now floatingoil gluts
But, none of these factscan be proven.
Only clear fact: Crude oil fell 74% in 12 weeks(September 22 nd December 22 nd).
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Are We Missing The Black Swan?
Credit default swapindex soared as crudeoil plunged.
Credit freeze beganwhen oil collapsed.
This had to hurt tradersability to own oil contracts.
If any traders ever hadto liquidate contracts,this would cause oil prices to temporarily fall.
Glencore (aka Marc Rich & Co AG) Energy Trading Credit
default swaps illustrate the squeeze.
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Are Current Oil Prices Now Fair?
NO! They are dangerously low.
Middle East producers now facingdeficit spending.
Key projects have beenpostponed or cancelled.
Drilling rigs are being laid down.
New rigs are facing creditproblems with shipyards.
Industry economics do not workat current prices.
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Is There An Oil Price That BeginsTo Cut This Gordian Knot?
There is no hard data toshed light on this.
$150 oil with a permanentfloor might help for a while.
But, this does not: Find more oil Quickly build additional new
drilling rigs Recruit and train oil workforce
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When Do Oil Prices Get So HighThey Really Hurt Economies?
Through 2007 - 1 st half 2008, many key consumingregions paid retail prices for gasoline at $8 to $11 pergallon.
This translates to $378 - $462/bbl for oil and noeconomic pain was evident.
How the wellhead revenue for high oil prices gets
reinvested is key to insure high prices help, not hurt,global economies.
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Natural Gas SupplyIn Worse Shape Than Crude Oil
Conventional North American gaspeaked decades ago: USAs conventional dry gas peaked at
63 bcf/day in 1973 Its output by 2008 shrank to under
30 bcf/day Growing percentage of global gas
tainted with sulfur and other toxicgases and metals.
Growing amount of gas is wet gascoming from gas caps of old oil fields.
Most global proven gas reserves havenever properly been discovered.
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Natural Gas ProductionDecline Rates Are Amazing
Since natural gas is a vapor, it can be produced at extremely highrates, but once it declines, rates can range from 30% - 65% perannum.
Tight rock gas can
be fractured or acidizedto create high flow ratesfor short periods.
Shale gas resourcebase is abundant, but: It is very energy intensive to get out of ground Its decline rates vary by type of shale Individual well flows are small
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U.S. Natural Gas PricesFell Further Than Crude Oil
By early 2008, gas analysts began predicting a comingglut of shale gas. This createdheavy pressure on gas prices.
By end of year, natural gasprices were back to $3.50 to$5.00 range (BOE equivalentof $21 - $30 oil).
Gas rig count began to plunge.
Shale gas needs high prices to be economically viable.
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Russian Gas Crisis Almost Froze Europe
On January 1, 2009 a bitterArctic blast froze Russia.
Putin had a tough decision ashigh amount of their gas wascommitted to Europe (at highprices).
Russia did not have enoughgas for peak winter in Russia
and Europe, let alone Ukraine. So, they closed their taps and Europe almost froze.
This problem was not political. It was mature Siberian giant gasfields in steep decline.
Source: CBCNews.ca January 9, 2009
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Russias Big Three ProblemsWill Never Get Better
Russias three top gas fields produce 65% 70% of its gas. All have peaked. Urengoy is the Ghawar of
global gas:
It peaked in the mid-1990s at305 bcm/year
By 2000, Urengoys productionwas 145 bcm/year
By 2015, production is estimated
to fall to 70 bcm/year Yamburgs decline is close behind. Zapolyarnoye came on stream one year ago and is just starting to
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Gas To Liquids (GTL)Is Outrageously Expensive
Shells Pearl GTL project is worldsmost costly new energy project: Construction is 50% complete Cost estimates range from
$15 - $30 billion It consumed 100,000 tons of pipingsteel, 100,000 tons of structuralsteel and 100,000 tons of steelequipment
It will produce 140,000 barrels perday of distillate plus high volume ofsulfur and some condensate .
Its gas reserves are tough toproduce.
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Global Refinery SqueezeIs Another Bottleneck
Most of worlds key refineries are extremely old and not suited toconvert heavy crude into light finished products.
Nameplate capacity is misleading as 10% 15% of refineries need tobe shut down at unspecified times.
Only a fraction of globalrefineries are new.
Average age of USArefinery complex is over 80years.
Refineries wear out (andexplode when run at fullcapacity).
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High Prices Do Not AddressOil Industrys Twin Cancers
Two issues threaten oil industrys sustainability.
Both took decades todevelop into twin cancers.
Neither has any clear,quick resolution.
Both could take decades
to redress.
The Issues
People Crisis
Rust
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Unresolved People CrisisWill Cripple Global Industry
High percentage of current employee base of global oil industry will retire in next5 7 years.
This crisis touches every aspect of the industry: Rig hands Geologists Engineers of all disciplines Welders Manufacturing workers Executives across the face of industry
How quickly can industry recruit and train millions of employees?
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Rust Is A More Serious Twin Disease
Rust is code word for aging oildelivery system.
It is all built of steel, which beginsto rust on day one.
Rust never sleeps is timelessmaritime phrase. High percentage of delivery
system from well bores,gathering system, tank farms,pipelines, tankers, refineries, rigs, other oil service assets andservice stations tanks, etc., etc. beyond original design life.
The Band-aid Era is over. The era to rebuild the entire infrastructure has to begin ASAP.
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Conquering Rust Will Be Worlds LargestAnd Most Complex Project
Replacing even 80% of global delivery system of oil will bemore costly and complex than fighting WWII or MarshallPlan.
Total cost might exceed $100 trillion.
Manpower needs could exceed 500,000 to 1 millionengineers, construction workers, etc.
Could the world run out of iron ore and steel in getting thetask done?
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Oil Prices Need To Snap Back Fast
The longer current prices staylow, the higher the odds risethe industry will destroy itself.
Industry leaders/stakeholdersneed to re-examine how littleis known about what sets oilprices, the aging of industrykey assets and the reality that
oil has peaked. Someone needs to abolish
current extreme volatilitybefore it destroys the industry.
Source: Upstream November 28, 2008
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Natural Gas Prices ShouldScale At BTU Premium To Oil
Natural gas is worlds only source of instant heat.
In the winter, heat is a gift of God.
In severe cold, lack of heat quicklyleads to hypothermia, which killsquickly.
Gas is scarce and shouldcommand a BTU premium to oil.
Post-Katrina, we briefly had close to BTU parity: $12.65 natural gas $76 oil
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2009 Will Be Year Of Extreme Challenge
If industry leadership keeps heads buriedin sand, they deserve the blame foranguish this is causing.
New Obama Administration needsto get quickly educated on thesekey issues.
Easiest way to crush any economicrecovery is to end up with oil shortage andsky-rocketing oil prices.
Natural gas might be worse shape than oil.
2009 needs to be Year of Enlightenment.
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What To Watch For As 2009 Unfolds
Watch how fast rigs workingslow down.
Watch oil stocks getting tight.
Watch production starting todecline as drilling stops.
Watch OPEC cut too deeplyinto tight market.
Watch the horror of layoffs ending a nascent recruiting era.
Watch for sharp rebound in oil and gas prices when supplydrops outstrip demand.
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Does The Oil BusinessHave To Be Boom And Bust?
Is the industry fated to lurch betweenfeast and famine?
With cost of new oil and gas projectsso high, can anyone survive thisvolatility?
When reality sets in that oil supplyreally peaked, can this usher in aBrave New World in oil?
Or, does this exacerbate viciousvolatility?
Is this oil industry still sustainable?
Not on its current course.
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Can The World AdjustTo Having Less Oil To Use?
Not on present global blueprint.
We are heavily embedded in anoil powered economy.
Mobility, agriculture, distribution offood, etc., all depend on plentifuland reliable oil supplies.
90% of world population juststarting down path America andEurope began after WWII.
We have a brief window tochange current path.
Otherwise, future could be crazy.Source: Oil & Gas Middle East , April 2008
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