US Oil Is Back -- Stronger Than Ever -- February 26, 2023

Link here.

ESG is dead.

Energy transition is dead.

But US oil sector is not. 

From the linked article:

A year of war in Ukraine has highlighted the return of oil as a source of U.S. financial influence and geopolitical power.

As the West has shunned most Russian energy, unleashing a pressure campaign against the Kremlin’s petroleum revenues, record U.S. crude exports have helped fill the gap in Europe with the oil needed to produce gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

Since February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, average monthly seaborne cargoes to the continent jumped 38% compared with the previous 12-month period, according to ship-tracking firm Kpler. A fleet of skyscraper-size tankers carried more crude to Germany, France and Italy—the European Union’s largest economies—as well as Spain, which alone boosted purchases by about 88% over the period.

The pull of oil shipments from the Gulf Coast to Europe, which Kpler pegged at 1.53 million barrels a day in January, has in recent months made the continent a larger destination for U.S. crude than Asia.

By the way, have others noted "Kpler"?

Now, fallout from the war in Ukraine is underlining how the shale boom remade U.S. energy leverage over the past 15 years. Innovations in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that tapped gushers of fossil fuels are reshaping energy trading and prices in the image of West Texas and other shale regions.

U.S. natural gas shipments to Europe more than doubled last year, according to the White House, cushioning the continent’s households and manufacturers after Russia throttled supplies. Analysts say surging U.S. crude production helped to calm markets as the West restricted most Russian exports with bans and novel price caps in recent months.

“America is back in the most predominant position it has been in world energy since the 1950s,” said Daniel Yergin, an energy historian and vice chairman of S&P Global. “U.S. energy now is becoming one of the foundations of European energy security.”

Much, much more at the link.

Remember: the most recent round of sanctions went into effect earlier this month, February 5, 2023.

And Russia has announced it's cutting production by 500,000 bopd starting in three days -- March, 2023.