RE: Is Biden good for Tullow ?7 Nov 2020 23:05
Short Term:
- Likely lockdowns of USA if COVID cases/deaths continue to rise
- No support for shale oil companies during this crisis
- Likely little liasion between USA and OPEC on oil output - Biden will leave things to OPEC to sort out
Medium Term:
- Rejoin the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
- Iran/Venezuela sanctions likely lifted?
- Ban of fracking on federal lands and issuing new drilling permits banned
- Increase restrictions on emissions - bring US standards on emissions closer to EU (car, power, flaring etc.)
- Incentives for renewables and clean energy
- Rise in gasoline prices from the current sub $2/gallon. This should give refineries a better margin
Long Term:
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- net zero emissions for POWER industry by 2035
Overall, I think Biden will be good for Tullow.
- On the short term impacts, oil production from shale will decline to 6m barrels (from current 11m barrels) by mid-late 2021 due to lack of CAPEX investment. So any impact with lockdowns and other restrictions will be offset by lower production.
- On the medium term impacts, oil production from the USA will likely stay around 6m barrels due to high cost of drilling/developing production sites. Offset by Iran/Venezuela sanctions lifted? Oil prices will likely tend to maybe $80-90/barrel with improving refinery margins and demand (assuming demand recovers...)
- On the long term impact, let's not talk about that.
ALL IMO. DYOR.
Slift