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gta3uzi

11/04/15 12:24 PM

#384 RE: parrot head #383

Most things exist on a sliding scale. UDW offshore is expensive and a few of those projects have been shelved recently, Canadian oil sands project was shelved, Arctic exploration was shelved. Central and South America have promising shallow-water offshore business if they can figure out their business. We can't rely on this, though.

Theoretically I think shallow-water drilling is competitive with light-tight oil and we will start to see that as onshore production drops and offshore production increases at a decreased ratio.
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gta3uzi

11/04/15 8:38 PM

#387 RE: parrot head #383

This was posted today on SA. It looks like COP and HES have different capex and opex profiles for their onshore and offshore plays as I suspect is true for many OC's. The other thing to consider is that offshore tendering might increase when lower dayrates are factored in to capex budgets. It stands to reason that lower dayrates will shift capex away from onshore and even with fixed offshore budgets more contracts will be awarded. If two rigs can be contracted at $100k, three can be contracted at $66k.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3646796-hess-claims-offshore-oil-is-cheaper-than-shale