Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Fracing discounts seen cutting over $3 billion in 2015 profits

HOUSTON (Bloomberg) -- Oilfield contractors hired to drill wells and fracture rock to raise crude and natural gas to the surface will have to lower prices by as much as 20% to help keep their cash-strapped customers working. Ultimately, that could carve out more than $3 billion from the 2015 earnings outlined by analysts for the world’s four biggest oil-service companies -- Schlumberger Ltd., Halliburton Co., Baker Hughes Inc. and Weatherford International Plc.


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