According to Baker Hughes data from October 23, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 787 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. This is unchanged overall compared to last week, with oil rigs down 1 to 594 rigs, gas rigs up 1 to 193 rigs, and miscellaneous rigs unchanged at […]
According to Baker Hughes data from October 16, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 787 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. This is a decrease of 8 rigs when compared to last week, with oil rigs down 10 to 595 rigs, gas rigs up 3 to 192 rigs, and […]
According to Baker Hughes data from October 9, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 795 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. This is a decrease of 14 rigs when compared to last week, with oil rigs down 9 to 605 rigs, gas rigs down 6 to 189 rigs, and […]
According to Baker Hughes data from October 2, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 809 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. This is a decrease of 29 rigs when compared to last week, with oil rigs down 26 to 614 rigs, gas rigs down 2 to 195 rigs, and […]
According to Baker Hughes data from September 25, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 838 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. This is a decrease of 4 rigs when compared to last week, with oil rigs down 4 to 640 rigs, gas rigs down 1 to 197 rigs, and […]
According to Baker Hughes data from September 18, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 842 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. This is a decrease of 6 rigs when compared to last week, with oil rigs down 8 to 644 rigs, gas rigs up 2 to 198 rigs, and […]
Figure 1 shows historical gas and oil prices since January 2000. The daily spot price of West Texas Intermediate closed at $45.92 on September 8th after recovering to $59.53 on June 15th. In the last 10 days WTI has declined by $3.28 according to the latest daily figure available from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). […]
According to Baker Hughes data from August 28, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 877 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. This is a decrease of 8 rigs when compared to last week, with oil rigs up 1 to 675 rigs, gas rigs down 9 to 202 rigs, and […]
According to Baker Hughes data from August 21, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 885 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. This is an increase of 1 rig when compared to last week, with oil rigs up 2 to 674 rigs, gas rigs unchanged at 211 rigs, and miscellaneous […]
Figure 1 shows historical gas and oil prices since January 2000. The daily spot price of West Texas Intermediate closed at $44.94 on August 10th after recovering to $59.53 on June 15th. In the last two weeks WTI has declined by $2.23 according to the latest daily figure available from the Energy Information Administration, […]
Pipe and tube manufacturers have been struggling to stay afloat as oil prices continue to depress demand from the energy industry. Northwest Pipe Company, headquartered in Vancouver, is among those companies posting a loss for second quarter. The Tubular Products segment of Northwest Pipe saw sales from operations decrease 61.3 percent year over year to […]
According to Baker Hughes data from August 7, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 884 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. This is an increase of 10 rigs when compared to last week, with oil rigs up 6 to 670 rigs, gas rigs up 4 to 213 rigs, and […]
According to Baker Hughes data from July 31, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 874 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. This is a decrease of 2 rigs when compared to last week, with oil rigs up 5 to 664 rigs, gas rigs down 7 to 209 rigs, and […]
According to Baker Hughes data from July 24, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 876 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. This is up 19 rigs when compared to last week, with oil rigs up 21 to 659 rigs, gas rigs down 2 to 216 rigs, and miscellaneous rigs […]
Figure 1 shows historical gas and oil prices since January 2000. The daily spot price of West Texas Intermediate fell below $100/barrel in August and by January 23rd was down to $44.80. By June 15th, the price of WTI had recovered to $59.53. In the last 30 days through July 13th WTI has declined again […]
According to Baker Hughes data from July 17, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 857 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. This is down 6 rigs when compared to last week, with oil rigs down 7 to 638 rigs, gas rigs up 1 to 218 rigs, and miscellaneous rigs […]
According to Baker Hughes data from July 10, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 863 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. This is up 1 rig when compared to last week, with oil rigs up 5 to 645 rigs, gas rigs down 2 to 217 rigs, and miscellaneous rigs […]
According to Baker Hughes data from June 26, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 859 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. This is up 2 rigs when compared to last week, with oil rigs down 3 to 628 rigs, gas rigs up 5 to 228 rigs, and miscellaneous rigs […]
Figure 1 shows historical gas and oil prices since January 2000. The daily spot price of West Texas Intermediate fell below $100 per barrel in August and by January 23rd was down to $44.80. By June 15th, the latest daily figure available from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) the price of WTI had recovered to […]
According to Baker Hughes data from June 12, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 859 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. The last time the active U.S. count was this low was back on January 17, 2003 at 845 rigs. This week’s total rig count is down 9 rigs […]
According to Baker Hughes data from June 5, 2015, the U.S rig count for the week was 868 rigs exploring for or developing oil or natural gas. The last time the active U.S. count was this low was back on January 24, 2003 at 862 rigs. This week’s total rig count is down 7 rigs […]
The energy markets, especially oil and natural gas, are major users of flat rolled steel and plate products. As oil prices have fallen the production of pipe & tube and related products for the energy segment of the economy have fallen significantly. This has had a major impact on hot rolled coil production and pricing. […]
The energy sector has been one of the critical steel-using market segments which is impacting the steel industry at this time. There are two separate issues at the moment, exploration and production, and they are moving in opposite directions. The exploratory rig count is collapsing and production is increasing. Figure 1 shows historical gas and […]