Shale oil, as the newest addition to its extensive offerings, Sales and Trading Director Matthew Marney commented: "Though in most parts of the world drilled oil belongs to the government, in the US, oil drilled on a plot of land belongs to the land owners themselves.
Under this scenario, shale oil supplies increase substantially from the US and sufficient infrastructure would be in place to render shale oil exports competitive with GCC oil exports.
There has been a lot of talk recently about the United States reducing its reliance on oil from the Middle East, and particularly Saudi Arabia, because America has rapidly developed natural gas and shale oil, which has produced a revolution in the biggest market in the world.
By the start of this decade, the technique had been applied to several shale oil formations-most notably, the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico-with remarkable results.
Oil Minister Bijan Namdar-Zanganeh wants to keep oil prices around $60 a barrel to avoid encouraging US shale oil production, he told The Wall Street Journal in an interview just one year ago.
During CERAWeek 2019, the International Energy Agency (IEA) tried hard to capitalize on such an event to inject bearishness into the market when it appeared as a dedicated sales agency to the US shale oil producers.
The average modeling volume of the remaining shale gas is 9.44 billion cubic feet (bcf) and the average modeling volume of the remaining shale oil is 24.32 million barrels (Mbbl).
He pointed out that more US shale oil can be expected to reach the market demand is uncertain and depends on the global economic outlook Iranian sanctions may take more oil off the market and there is a growing disconnect between the increased supply of light oil and the demand for heavy/medium oils to produce diesel.
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