It is captured in this one chart from Art Berman:
This one chart is the US shale revolution in global oil markets. What it shows is the forward curve for oil sales over time. As you can see, the curve has been smashed lower and flatter in recent weeks.
What US shale does is find a pot of money for rigs and drilling. It then forward sells roughly the same amount of oil to cover that cost. It can then pocket any remaining remaining profit from the cash flow of any given well. That’s why the curve is always in steep backwardation.
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