The 20 Leading Companies in Shale (Tight) Oil 2014

LONDON, September 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

Competitive Landscape Analysis 

Leading oil and gas companies across the world continue to migrate their E&P capital expenditure budgets toward the now de-risked prospect of shale (tight) oil development in the US.  By 2014, visiongain estimates that $68.2bn will be spent on shale (tight) oil development.  The production of these assets produces an ever-more predictable return on investment and does not come with the political and/or security risk of E&P for some locations around the world.  The US remains by far the dominant market for investment and the presence of the supply chain, expertise and equipment within America to develop these assets enhances the predictability of returns.  Technological risk is no longer present with the development of the hydrocarbons from shale in the US; this allows these resources to compete for investment with other areas of a company's portfolio, e.g. deepwater E&P and oil sands. As prime acreage positions in the US become congested and increase in value, companies are looking to well designs, fracturing techniques and completion efficiencies to expand their operations and the percentage returned on capital invested.

Escalating company involvement in the industry is broadly uniform, with leading major independent oil and gas companies either making the development of oil from tight assets the core part of their operations for the indefinite future or the engine for the next wave of offshore or international E&P activity likely in the first half of the 2020's.

International oil companies are also increasingly involved.  Their cash flows and expertise makes the next wave of development from the shale (tight) oil industry one that they will primarily control: the non-US space and most further technological development.  The development of shale (tight) oil reserves in the non-US space is still in its infancy and is only now beginning to have an impact on who populates our leading companies report (by capital expenditure on tight oil development efforts).  Argentina, Canada and Russia are the leading prospects in this regard and will experience the greatest growth in terms of capital expenditure over the next five years.  This will likely see an ever greater percentage of IOC capital budget devoted to tight oil development, bringing these companies in line with some of the major independents populating the US market space.

Our 20 leading companies in the shale (tight) oil market report profiles the major players in this segment of the oil & gas industry, analysing their current involvement in the market, assessing their future prospects and detailing their capital expenditure on shale (tight) oil development.  The report also quantifies the total amount expended by other companies outside of the top 20 profiled and analysed here.

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  -  Read about each company's acreage positioning, shale (tight) oil spending as a percentage of total company spending and, where possible, see a breakdown of each company's capital expenditure by play.
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  - Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
  - Apache Corporation
  - Chesapeake Energy
  - Chevron
  - Concho Resources
  - ConocoPhillips
  - Continental Resources
  - Devon Energy
  - EOG Resources
  - EP Energy
  - ExxonMobil
  - Hess Corporation
  - Marathon Oil
  - Murphy Oil
  - Newfield Exploration Company
  - Noble Energy
  - Occidental Petroleum
  - Pioneer Natural Resources
  - Royal Dutch Shell
  - Whiting Petroleum
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  - Government regulation and legislation
  - Supply and demand dynamics
  - The importance of oil prices
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  - Environmental issues
  - Market driver and restraints

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Companies Listed in this Report 

Americas Petrogas
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
Apache Corporation
Baker Hughes
BASF
BHP Billiton
BNK Petroleum
BP
Canacol Energy
Canadian Natural Resources (CNRL)
CenterPoint Energy
Chesapeake Energy
Chesapeake Midstream Partners
Chevron
CNOOC
Concho Resources
ConocoPhillips
Continental Resources
Devon Energy
Emery Refining
Enervest/EVEP
ENI
EOG Resources
EP Energy
ExxonMobil
GazpromNeft
GE
Geosouthern Energy
Hess Corporation
Jana Partners
Kinder Morgan
Kodiak Oil & Gas
Magellan Midstream Partners
Marathon Oil
Marathon Petroleum
Murphy Oil
Murphy USA
Newfield Exploration
Noble Energy
Oasis Petroleum
Occidental
Phillips 66
Pioneer Natural Resources
Premier Silica
Reliance Industries Limited
Repsol
Rosneft
Royal Dutch Shell
Sanchez Energy
Statoil
Sumitomo Corp.
Uinta Resources
Western Energy Partners LP
Whiting Petroleum (acquiring Kodiak Oil & Gas)
Woodside
XTO Energy
YPF

Government Agencies and Other Organisation Mentioned in This Report
Duke University
EIA - US Energy Information Administration
Islamic State
NERA
New York Stock Exchange - NYSE
North Dakota Association of Oil and Gas Producing Counties
North Dakota House of Representatives
OPEC - Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Purdue University
SEC - Security and Exchange Commission
Texas Christian University
Texas Railroad Commission
The Sierra Club
UND - University of North Dakota
University of Maryland
US Department of Commerce
US Department of Energy
USDA - US Department of Agriculture

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