$65 Oil Forecast for 2013 as U.S. Domestic Producers Increase Supply to Lower Demand: Andrew Coleman of Raymond James Financial Details the Stock Market Winners and Losers
67 WALL STREET, New York - January 7, 2013 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Oil & Gas: Refining, Independent and Major Integrated Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This special feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with public company CEOs, Equity Analysts and Money Managers. The full issue is available by calling (212) 952-7433 or via The Wall Street Transcript Online.
Topics covered: Capital Expenditures and Consolidation Activity - Refining Crude Price Differentials - Frontier Exploration and Development - Shale Drilling Capital Expenditures - Oil and Gas Price Divergence - Oil Price Expectations - LNG Global Pricing Differentials
Companies include: Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC), PetroQuest Energy Inc. (PQ), EOG Resources, Inc. (EOG), Continental Resources Inc. (CLR), Denbury Resources Inc. (DNR), Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. (COG), Range Resources Corp. (RRC), Southwestern Energy Co. (SWN), Ultra Petroleum Corp. (UPL), Forest Oil Corp. (FST), Clayton Williams Energy Inc. (CWEI), Berry Petroleum Co. (BRY) and many others.
In the following excerpt from the Oil & Gas: Refining, Independent and Major Integrated Report, the co-head of E&P research for Raymond James Financial (RJF) discusses the outlook for the sector for investors:
TWST: It's your hypothesis that oil market fundamentals are going to dramatically deteriorate over the next six months. What factors are going to contribute to that deterioration in your view?
Mr. Coleman: The RJ house call for commodities on both oil and gas are, one, we think that supply in the U.S. on the oil side has been growing pretty robustly, and we could add an incremental 3 million barrels over the next five years. Secondly, on the demand side, what we see is - or what we know is - that the U.S. economy is not growing rapidly. There's risk to potentially going into recession if we fall off the fiscal cliff. And we know Europe is having their own macroeconomic issues, and there are big concerns about China slowing down. So we think that higher supply in the U.S. and weaker demand globally could come together and manifest itself in the most obvious sign of exploding oil inventories in the next six months, and those higher inventories then will push oil prices down. So using our bottom-up, play-by-play oil model, we think to get going with the slowdown you need to see pricing average $65 for 2013.
On the gas side, we know last winter was extremely warm, causing prices to collapse. It would have been worse had we not seen up to 10 Bcf/D of coal to gas switching on the power side. Industry did its part by dramatically curtailing most dry gas drilling in 2012. And now, heading through into this winter, we think that better year-on-year comps on the gas storage side will firm up an improving gas picture. Weather data has not entirely cooperated though so far, so some industry players are suggesting that supply finally could roll given the lower spend levels of 2012, though our model...
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