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  • Solving a puzzle: More nonrenewable resources without higher prices

    Economic intuition suggests nonrenewable resources such as metals or fossil fuels become scarcer and more expensive over time. However, a new dataset covering the years 1700 to 2018 indicates otherwise.

  • GDP gain realized in shale boom’s first 10 years

    The U.S. shale boom has benefited the nation’s oil trade balance and oil-producing regions and led to unusually large employment and output gains.

  • Surveys

    Dallas Fed Energy Survey

    Activity in the oil and gas sector was flat in second quarter 2019 after three years of growth, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey.

  • Breakeven oil prices underscore shale’s impact on the market

    The oil price that companies need to profitably drill new wells has closely tracked prices for long-dated oil futures in recent years. The emergence of U.S. shale production seems to be playing a large role in anchoring long-term oil prices.

  • Modern refineries, shale boom upend traditional oil price relationships

    Different crude oils can sell for dramatically different prices with sometimes far-reaching effects on the energy industry—from impacts on oil producers’ production decisions to oil refineries’ profit margins.

  • Surveys

    Dallas Fed Energy Survey

    Energy sector activity grew modestly in first quarter 2019, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey.

  • Global Perspectives: John Hess on U.S. oil reserves, climate change

    Few sectors of the U.S. economy have undergone as radical a transformation in recent years as the energy sector, and few loom as large in the economic fortunes of Texas and the Eleventh District.

  • Dallas Fed Energy Survey suggests oil price drop won’t cause sector collapse in 2019

    Following a banner year in 2018, will U.S. oil producers retrench and reduce capital spending after the recent double-digit oil price decline? The latest Dallas Fed Energy Survey provides some clues about what may be next.

  • Surveys

    Dallas Fed Energy Survey

    Growth in energy sector activity slowed significantly in fourth quarter 2018, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey.

  • Surveys

    Dallas Fed Energy Survey

    Energy sector activity expanded strongly in second quarter 2018, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey.