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He has worked with 27 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: various companies, including more Capital Management, and he just simply 28 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: looks at the energy business and the Nash natural resources business. Bruno, 29 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: wonderful to have you here. Is it for real? Goldman 30 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: says it's not there. It's all over the media to 31 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: business media. Uh. Jeff Curry and the team at Goldman 32 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: saying maybe not. You push against that idea. Yeah, And 33 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 1: you know what you have to start by asking yourself 34 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: define what's real? Right? You know that that's the big question. 35 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: What are your expectations for prices? UM? Highly respect that 36 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: team over there. I've been I've been reading their stuff 37 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: for for almost twenty years now. Um I am. I 38 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: am theorizing that oil has seen the lows. You know, 39 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 1: a lot of people were calling for a twenty dollar 40 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: price deck because that was what was needed to get 41 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: US production offline. Um, I don't think so. I don't 42 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: think we need to go that low to see the 43 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: supply response that's needed to rebalance the market. So we're 44 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: looking for a slow, steady, gradual upward price movement from 45 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: here to around forty barrel for the balance of and 46 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: then slowly gravitating towards an average price of fifty dollars 47 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: a barrel in And at that point you're gonna start 48 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: to see the US producers come back into the market 49 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 1: with new supply supply that will take care of the 50 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: decline rates and incrementally add So I think the worst 51 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: is behind us. I think you're seeing a knee jerk 52 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: reaction to the market's expectation. The worst is behind us. 53 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: Will slowly gravitate into a range, volatility will dry up, 54 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: and we'll start to slowly ratchet up from there. But 55 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:20,919 Speaker 1: I don't think you're going to see a twenty dollar 56 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 1: price deck if we get to that level. Um, you're 57 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,839 Speaker 1: talking ballants We're not going to have people who need 58 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 1: cash pumping more oil just because the price is higher 59 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: and send us back into trouble. Yes, and that's a 60 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: great point, I think at the end of the end 61 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: of the day. And this is where where OPEC can't 62 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: get too cute. Right, Um, if you have a price 63 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: deck that balances the market, you're incrementally drawing down on 64 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: stocks anywhere between sort of forty five to fifty dollars. 65 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: The real risk is OPAC loses control again because now 66 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: you have US based oil and gas producers that have 67 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: all reconfigured their business models to be profitable at fifty dollars. 68 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: So you'll start to see increases in global production at 69 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: that price level. And look, this is what this phenomenon 70 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: is all about, right, This was a supply driven price 71 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 1: route based upon something secular. Something changed. We can access 72 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: more oil faster, cheaper, and more efficiently. That's not going away. 73 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: Why did we put a floor in here? Yes, the 74 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 1: Saudis and the Russians agreed to freeze production. Nobody believed 75 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: that they're actually doing it. They didn't set any targets 76 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 1: or any way to prove what's happening. So why did 77 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: this work. It worked because I think that you know, 78 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: low prices cure low prices generally, particularly in cyclical commodities. 79 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: Um At the end of the day, there is a 80 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: certain amounts or certain number of US based producers that 81 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: cannot operate under sort of you know, sub thirty five 82 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: dollar price environment. So the market was always expecting year 83 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 1: on your declines in production. The rate of those, of 84 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: the steepness of that decline curve was not as high 85 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 1: as people thought. We don't have as much production coming 86 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 1: off as anticipated, but it's coming off. Let's not forget. 87 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 1: You know, year on year US based oil production is 88 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,799 Speaker 1: off probably around three barrels a day at this point, 89 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: and it will continue to come off unless prices go higher. 90 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 1: So we'll slowly balance the market as production comes off 91 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: in the States. As we do that, prices will go 92 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: higher only to be met by new production increases. And 93 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: that's what this is all about. Right at the end 94 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 1: of the day, we're no longer in this supercycle. We 95 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 1: are in a process where crude oil will reset into ranges, 96 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 1: and that's what we're looking. I'll go that you don't 97 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: have the maybe you don't have the China catalyst to 98 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: get us out to stupid pricing again. But did you 99 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: see the catharsist to clear markets, I mean the heart 100 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: of your theory versus the good work of Jeff Curry 101 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,840 Speaker 1: and others who are more suspect about a bid being 102 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 1: set in the heart of the matter as you've got 103 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: to clear that supplied glot. Did we do that? Or 104 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: is Cushing still up to its eyeballs and oil? Well, 105 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: we are in the process of clearing that supply gut. 106 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: And given the expectations idea, we're you know, we're betting 107 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 1: on where we are June, where we are September, and 108 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: that what gives you the confidence to believe that Cushing 109 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: is cleared. Well, it's not necessarily just about Cushing, and 110 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: you know, I mean Cushing is definitely it's the hub 111 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 1: that prices W T I, which is the benchmark, and 112 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 1: we all know that. But firstly, you know, define defined 113 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: Cushing being full in essence. That's that's very hard to 114 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: do because throughout my career doing this, you know, we've 115 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: had multiple instances where Cushing was quote unquote full and 116 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: it never quite gets full. So the reality is that's 117 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: a very difficult thing to determine. And at the end 118 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 1: of the day. You have to remember when when when 119 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: a certain UH storage basin gets full, you have other 120 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: areas that you start to fill out. So you know, 121 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: I think the basis has to be looking at year 122 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: on your production declines. We are in the process of 123 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: clearing up that glut via production declines. And what I 124 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: mean by that is U S producers are not given 125 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:17,119 Speaker 1: a price signal to develop new reserves profitably in order 126 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: to negate production declines. So we needed to take price 127 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: down to that level, which I think we have because 128 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: you're seeing you're on your price production declines, so we're 129 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: slowly cleaning the market up. I think as that happens, 130 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: you'll see it in the numbers weekly and then again monthly. 131 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: The market is always forward looking, and that's what it's 132 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: pricing in. Now we reached the price where we're seeing 133 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: a significant amount of production to clients. That will continue, 134 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: stocks will begin to draw down, will raise to a 135 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: price level where producers can develop raw acreage at a 136 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: higher price. That price is probably around fifty bucks. Every 137 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: e MP company in their quarterly UH statements has been 138 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: saying we have learned will learn how to operate profitably. 139 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: A fifty dollars. That's the signal right from the horse's mouth. Well, 140 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: you got a lot of e MP companies who may 141 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: not be around in a month or two. What what's 142 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: that looking like now as we get into the bank 143 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: reset season. Yeah, No, that's the million dollar question. And 144 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: I think the saudis in particular, we're we're as gloomy 145 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: as it sounds, we're looking for more bankruptcies. The reality is, 146 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: when you start to really look at the detail behind 147 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: the bankruptcies that have been announced in the last eighteen 148 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: months to two years, there have been in North America 149 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:34,079 Speaker 1: roughly forty or forty three bankruptcies. The issue is, the 150 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: companies that have been declaring bankruptcies are not volumetrically significant 151 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: enough to cause this sort of cataclysmic drop in US production. Clearly, 152 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 1: we haven't seen it. They tend to be the names, 153 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 1: quite frankly, you would have expected to declare bankruptcy, the 154 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: small to medium sized names that were highly leveled out 155 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 1: of the gate, and they're just not big enough. The 156 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 1: real and this is one of the reasons why production 157 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: has been so resilience in this in the States is 158 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: the larger, volumetrically significant producers have had no trouble accessing 159 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:14,079 Speaker 1: the cheapest form of capital, and that's accessing the equity markets. 160 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: You know, take a look at the secondaries that we've 161 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: seen last year and into this year, big numbers generally 162 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 1: successful secondary offerings. Devon Energy is a notable one, most 163 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,439 Speaker 1: recently raised one point three billion dollars. And the interesting 164 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: thing is when you look at what they all say 165 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: they're gonna do with that capital. Well, primarily they're gonna 166 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: pay down debt that preserve their credit rating, because again 167 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: a lot of this is orchestrated behind the scenes a 168 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: better credit rating agencies. You want to reintain your credit rating, 169 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 1: you want to maintain your current cross getting paid down 170 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: your debt and start to get discipline. So they're all 171 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 1: paying down debt, but almost all of them are saying 172 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: that they're also going to use a part of that 173 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 1: revenue to develop reserves because at the end of the day, 174 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 1: they're in the business of producing. Yeah, that's the DNA. Well, 175 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 1: let's come back one talk about net gas, which has 176 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: been a life of its own as well. Mike Urgent 177 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: message Leslie Patton reporting for Bloomberg News, shake Check drops, 178 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: shake Check fell in early trading after Tom Keene did 179 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: not buy the smoke Scheck double bar. It's our fault, 180 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: galories nine. Do about the four cents? 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