VolStrom
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Yeah, but six months is a lot longer than the average American short term memory. Obama used to put the bad news out on Friday afternoons knowing it would all be forgotten by Monday morning.
It will be 6 months before they can get equipment to start up new rigs..lol
I really wonder if that's the honest story. Without doubt, getting new hardware is difficult ... if that's actually the issue. However, if you've watched a few episodes of this gas price game in the past, it always goes the same way. When consumers really get irate, miracles seem to fall from the heavens, oil suddenly pours out of the ground, and gas prices drop. That tells me that producers do play games with supply until they start feeling a little too much heat. The interesting thing is whether we'll see that the feds are backing off on the death of fossil fuels and petie's new fuel economy standard goes in the dumpster, or if policies just quietly fade away. I think this amounted to a strike until .gov got real and agreed that their nazi anti oil stance had to go away.
One of my best customers, tiny little outfit that buys multi stage centrifugal pumps as OEM for wastewater, told me today his son is at Norfolk. This customer uses SS for the WW containment systems.
Some cruiser is in need of certain thickness SS for the ship skin and was told like 1 year. Even the USN cannot overcome what the marketplace can produce and some Admiral was livid as he needed deployment.
But part of my job really talking to people that are in the productive world and how it has impacted their livelihoods. Heck I use it as a a "we are on the same side" relationship builder all the time. The ole never talk about politics in sales...they went the way of the dodo bird.
We absolutely have to get manufacturing back in this country and get the supply chain under control. I wasn't questioning the equipment supply issue for new wells and production as much as whether the oil producers simply reduced what they can already pump until the biden administration backed down on the stupidity. The oil industry is correct in not sticking it's neck out on new production when the idiots in DC are trying to end oil use, and that's even assuming that investors are willing to supply capital to work with and producers even have the necessary permits to drill and pump.
FYI
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration announced lease sales for oil and gas drilling on federal land Friday, but said it would sharply reduce the acreage available for leases and charge higher royalties on the oil and gas produced.
The Interior Department said it would make roughly 144,000 acres available for oil and gas drilling through a series of lease sales, an 80% reduction from the footprint of land that had been under evaluation for leasing.