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Stephen Simko
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Danger Zone: Coming Shale Growth Poses Major Risks to Oil Prices

OPEC's production cuts and strong demand growth have 2017 crude fundamentals in their best shape since oil prices crashed two years ago. The consensus outlook is that fundamentals are now strong enough to remain healthy even after OPEC's cuts lapse. This might have been possible a few months ago, but the odds of this scenario playing out have markedly worsened since. The reason is that major increases in shale activity now have U.S. production firmly on a path of rapid growth, even if rig counts...
Underlying
Baytex Energy Corp.

Baytex Energy is a conventional oil and gas company engaged in the acquisition, development and production of petroleum and natural gas in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and the United States. As of Dec 31 2010, total proved reserves for light and medium oil consisting of 18,416 thousand barrels gross (15,335 thousand barrels net), heavy oil consisting of 104,978 thousand barrels gross (87,384 thousand barrels net), natural gas liquids consisting of 2,825 thousand barrels gross (2,015 thousand barrels net) and natural gas consisting of 83,800 million cubic feet gross (70,300 million cubic feet net).

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Stephen Simko

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