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Oil-Price ready for Blowout

By Makrocheck
November 24th, 2010
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“By some odd twist, oil gushers have come down in American cultural memory as a form of good news — evidence of riches found, like the popping of some geological champagne cork. (…) The truth, however, is that gushers, which plagued the early decades of the oil business, were disasters anywhere and everywhere they happened. They occurred when oil drillers penetrated a formation where oil and natural gas were under high pressure. The geyser of erupting oil could destroy drilling equipment, kill workers and shatter the eardrums of those it did not kill. Fire was a huge risk. Getting gushers under control sometimes took months.” (Justin Gillis; The New York Times; 21.06.2010)

Back in the days, after a well was drilled, an explosive charge was released down the pipe & set off with the anticipation & hope to crack the rock open in order to increase the petroleum flow into the bore hole. These days, acids are mostly used to achieve larger flow rates. Drillers did not have & use blowout-preventers as they do today to control high-pressure reservoirs. Generally, as soon as highly pressured formations are breached, the hydrocarbon fluids (oil & gas) ascend up the well. Once reaching the surface, the hydrocarbons (now in liquid & gas state) hopefully shoot up many hundreds of feet into the air being a classical sign of a successfully discovered & spudded reservoir. However, as soon as the first hydrocarbons break through the surface & a first small blowout of oil & water is noticed, the shooting  typically diminishes strongly  & fades away for some seconds before the real blowout erupts highly into the air.

The oil-price gusher started to erupt in early November 2010 as the price broke the (blue) triangle-leg at 82. A short breakout to 88 followed, whereafter a classical pullback to the (protracted) triangle occurred. As per definition, the thrust starts directly thereafter – as the price commenced to rise the last 2 days, a thrust to the upside is anticipated (instead of a thrust to the downside). The goal of this thrust is to rise above the resistance that was marked by the previous breakout (88) & to transform it into a new & sustainable support so that a new & sustainable upward-trend can start.














































The longer-term picture since 1995 shows the price moving up predominately within the (green) trend-channel, whereas the price action can be understood with the 2 (red & blue) triangles. In 2004, the upper (blue) triangle-leg at approx. 38 was broken, whereafter a breakout to approx. 150 took place until 2008 which was followed by a pullback to the (blue) triangle-apex at approx. 35. Hence, the thrust to the upside began in early 2009. According to the upward-sloping (red) triangle, the breakout started in 2005, whereas the pullback in 2008 was not able to hold above the (red) triangle-legs starting a breakout to the downside. As the price did not continue to decrease sustainably, no thrust to the downside occurred as a relatively fast rebound above the (red) triangle was accomplished in 2009. In early 2010, a final pullback to the (red) triangle-apex at approx. 66 took place, whereafter the price started to rise indicating a thrust to the upside since then & especially since breaking above the (violet) resistance at approx. 78. As per the (red) triangle, a longer-term sell-signal is generated only when breaching the price-level of the (red) triangle-apex at approx. 66.














At the following site, this ratio is analyzed & observed permanently with regular (monthly) updates in order not to miss crucial buy-signals and/or champagne-popping sell-signals: http://en.makrocheck.ch/176-XOI-vs-DOW