Liam Denning, Columnist

Will Oil Producers Do As They Say Or Do As They Sell in 2018?

U.S. E&P firms are heavily hedged, suggesting a headache for OPEC.

December 13, 2017 at 3:07 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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North America's oil producers have adopted a meek tone of late. But the numbers suggest they're locked and loaded heading into 2018.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance on Wednesday released an extensive new database (available only to Bloomberg Terminal clients), compiled by Peter Pulikkan, Bert Gilbert, Daniel McLaughlin and Jacob Fericy, detailing the hedging strategies of 53 U.S. and Canadian exploration and production companies.