If you knew anything about oil and gas exploration, you would know it is not that simple to bring a new well online. And you would also know that there is typically a long lead time in drilling new wells. There is geological work that needs done to minimize the risk of dry holes, drilling rigs need to be contracted or scheduled, crews need to be available, supplies need to be ordered and available, etc, etc. You don't just go from saying increase production to seeing it instantaneously happen.
As to wells that may be shut in (and please provide the details on how many of these there are because there is not some vast number out there, are they oil or NG, etc) you would also realize if you knew anything about oil and gas that there has to be work done after a well is complete to connect it to transportation and distribution systems. Pipelines just don't build themselves. Again companies have to deal with crew issues, supply issues, etc. If you really think companies aren't pumping what they can at these price levels in order to maximize profits and instead just letting the oil sit in the ground for when prices at some point fall, well you don't understand business.
And then there are the storage costs once the oil is pumped. Depending on where the well is located and a companies customers, they may need to store the oil til the customer needs it. And storage is not unlimited nor is it free
Now factor in a White House that has been extremely unfriendly and declared war on the oil and gas industry and there is even less incentive to risk capital at this time even if rigs could be obtained
Originally Posted by berryberry
Berry-. I spent 12 years in a high level role in oil and gas production specifically. You know more about putting milk on your lucky charms than you do about how wells operate.
Many Wells specifically in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, dig into the marcellus, devonian and Utica shale plains. High pressure Wells on a gathering line can be both good and bad. But a high pressure well that is on a gathering line with 10 other Wells, will literally shut in, or shut down the other Wells on that same line. The fact of the matter is oil and gas is only sold at cost or below cost, when operating companies need to generate revenue to stay afloat. Otherwise they should have well off, or minimize the production until profits and pricing are more desirable.
Drill sites go from beginning to production in usually less than 9 months depending on lots of things. But the most expensive thing to produce a well is water. The fact that you didn't mention that at all tells me you know zero or very little about how Wells are produced. Production water / wastewater can be used to produce another well, so usually has to be truck from site to site, which is one of the bigger delays when it comes to actually fracking / producing a well.
When it comes to production lines and gathering lines, a vast majority of these Wells are placed strategically along a corridor root so it's not a big deal to add new wells on with usually a minimum run of a mile or two of pipe, but for bigger production runs that have to go onto a midstream plant, then they have to go through a stabilization and compressors.
I specifically asked if any of you guys on the right understood why things didn't happen a certain way and you didn't hit on a single valid point. Why you pretend and pose on your keyboard, you know very little about what it takes to produce a gas well, let alone an oil well. I've been involved in the financials and operational expenses associated to oil and gas well productions for upstream and midstream groups.
Do some research and come back when you have a better understanding of things, but stop misinforming people on this site about shit you don't know anything about. For example the only thing you know about snubbing is how you treat ppl on a board. You wouldn't know shit about what that means in the production field, or you would have mentioned it. And if you are a real oil field person, or understood what happens on a rig you know what the term tripping pipe means. But you didn't and you don't. The term you used about geology in the oil business is not referred to as that, they are called reservoir engineers / engineering so you didn't mention that either. I doubt you know what a Landman does any more than a roustabout does!
Just like you don't know how the economy of gas and oil come out of the prices work, but you pretend like you do. There's a term for people who do shit like that. Poser