Enerji sektöründe danışmanlık yapan IHS yaklaşık 150 petrol ve gaz şirketinin iflas edebileceği uyarısında bulundu.
Enerji sektöründe danışmanlık hizmeti veren IHS, takip ettiği yaklaşık 150 petrol ve gaz şirketinin petrol arzındaki fazlanın fiyatlar üzerinde yarattığı baskı dolayısıyla iflas edebileceğini söyledi.
IHS analisti Bob Fryklund, verdiği bir söyleşide risk altındaki şirketlerin daha önce iflas için başvuran 60 şirketin iki katından daha fazla olduğunu söyledi.
Fryklund, petrol fiyatlarının sektörü daha fazla sarsmasının sektördeki beklemede kalan satın alma ve birleşme işlemlerini de etkileyeceğini söyleyn Fryklund, “Şu an sektörde kimse satın alım yapmıyor. Çünkü alıcı ve satıcıların beklentileri birbirleriyle uyuşmuyor. Aradaki bu farkı kapatmak durumundayız. Böylelikle sektörde daha fazla iflas olmasının önüne geçilebilir” diye konuştu.
Petrol arzındaki fazlanın da etkisiyle petrol fiyatları 2 yıl içinde yüzde 70’e varan düşüş kaydetmişti.
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About 150 oil and gas companies tracked by energy consultant IHS Inc. may go bust as a supply glut pressures prices and punishes revenues.
The number of companies at risk is more than twice the 60 producers that have already filed for bankruptcy, Bob Fryklund, chief upstream analyst at IHS, said in an interview. A further shake out would help stimulate deals that have been on hold because buyers and sellers have disagreed on asset values, he said.
Oil has collapsed about 70 percent over the past two years as U.S. shale producers boosted output and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries flooded the market with crude to drive out higher-cost suppliers. More bankruptcies would be one signal that energy prices have reached a bottom and would help kick off deals for the $230 billion worth of oil and gas assets currently up for sale, according to Fryklund.
“Nobody is buying because there is a mismatch between expectations,” Fryklund said in an interview in Tokyo. “We need to close that gap. And the way that that will happen is the rest of those bankruptcies will go forward.”
Companies that plan to make investments are likely to wait for prices to gain for six months because they want to be confident in a recovery, according to Fryklund.
‘A Little Lag’
“It usually happens as we begin to come back up on price,” he said. “There is always a little lag on timing.”
The global oil surplus that fueled crude’s decline to a 12-year low will shift to a deficit as output falls and a new bull market begins before the year is out, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in January. U.S. production will drop by 620,000 barrels a day, or about 7 percent, from the first quarter to the fourth, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Low prices are also spurring greater efficiency, according to IHS. Operating costs on a per barrel basis declined about 35 percent last year in North America and have dropped about 20 percent globally, according to the consultant. Crude output from North Dakota rose through most of last year and some producers in the Permian Basin in western Texas can break-even drilling oil at $35 a barrel, he said.
Drilling Productivity
Shale patches in the U.S. are pumping out more oil and gas than the government previously thought, according to the EIA’s Drilling Productivity Report released Monday. The agency predicts the seven major formations to produce 5.02 million barrels a day in February, up from last month’s forecast of 4.83 million a day.
West Texas Intermediate oil added 38 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $30.07 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange at 3:31 p.m. Singapore time. The U.S. benchmark has lost about 19 percent this year.
While IHS says U.S. production may fall by about 600,000 barrels a day this year, drillers would begin raising output again if prices averaged near $45 for about six months, Fryklund said.
“You would see the spinning starting, and the growth machine starting back up again,” said Fryklund.
