My Argument, Part III
2015 was the worst year for the industry on record. 2016 was no prize. Oil and gas prices are up. The service industry has been run over by a truck. The cash crisis continues throughout the industry and I predict it will continue to do so. This chronic cash shortfall being a bug of the business model, not a feature. The bankers and investors who usually filled that cash sinkhole are tepid, to say the least. So yeah, party on! At least that is what the producers are promoting. If going through the process of the past few years has taught us anything it's that the producers can’t, won’t and will not ever change. Not a word is spoken about anything regarding the business of the business and what changes need to be made. Status quo rules! Other than the futile jabs and occasional left upper cut that I sustained from the industry over the past few years. The industry is not in good fighting shape. They are weary from the battle and I have hit them too hard too many times. However, they have not thrown in the towel yet and are prepared to go the distance.
The most devastating counterpunch I can throw at this time is to mention the year 2040. Is the continuation of this “muddling along” strategy all that we are to look forward to? The same old same old as we have had for the past four decades? Should everyone continue to count on one good business year out of ten? Is this the best that producers can offer? And is this the only thing that they’re offering? I’m afraid it is. Everyday we are hearing of pipeline leaks and other operational issues from equipment that needs to be replaced. Almost the entire energy infrastructure needs to be replaced in the next few decades. Some have claimed this will range in cost from $20 to $40 trillion. As an investor, where do I sign up to volunteer my money? I want to get with the people who will raise that entire $20 to $40 trillion, spend it foolishly just the one time, never turn that capital over, and watch their spending glow bright and bold as property, plant and equipment year after year after year on their well defended balance sheets. All this while these producers report accounting profits that are of their traditional mythical and magical standards. My god as an investor, I want to sell everything and get into the oil and gas business! Just to be with those that say that is where it's at.
The sober, judicious, intelligent and responsible people have been watching the industry and its activities from afar. Whose perspective do you think they see? The one thing that can be said about these people is they don’t like to be bothered. They have other things to concern themselves with. And when they do get bothered they generally express themselves in spurts of anger towards those that have caused their attention to be diverted. That nothing was done, other than to blame OPEC, during these past two years, and nothing continues to be done for the future is most disconcerting to them. What they will therefore do is quietly make the changes that need to be made and move on to resume their normal lives. In the very near future producers may feel like they’ve been left behind by those that used to be in their corner. But that’s the way it is in the fight business, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.
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