"For the first time in a long time, we will see a buyer looking for a barrel of oil, as opposed to a barrel of oil looking for a buyer," Halliburton CEO Jeff Miller said at the 23rd World Petroleum Congress.
The group is working with Black & Veatch subsidiary Diode Ventures to develop and finance utility-scale solar projects in the Permian Basin.
Soaring oil production transformed North Dakota over the past decade but last year’s oil market downturn hit the region hard.
Across the African continent, where some 600 million people lack electricity, both well-established and emerging producers are seeking to accelerate hydrocarbon extraction.
The uptick in output is largely the result of lower base production declines, Chesapeake Energy said. It expects to produce between 20 million and 22 million barrels next year, according to a presentation.
The planning uptick in shale will come from larger companies and particularly from the Permian Basin, the top U.S. shale field, and follows pressure from the White House for more production.
“I think this industry has tried a market share war with OPEC before and it didn’t work out,” Diamondback Energy CFO Kaes Van’t Hof said. “So why don’t we let OPEC bring back their spare capacity and us stay flat?”
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