2015

Time to sober up.  Not from excessive New Year’s Eve reveling, but instead from the past five years of euphoria in the shale oil and gas markets. In the past two months crude oil prices have come crashing to earth, sucking down NGL prices in the process.  And lately even natural gas has succumbed to the malaise, falling below $3/MMbtu this week.  Price relationships are out the window, as are drilling budgets.  Over the next few months, these markets will be going through some of the most dynamic changes in years, with unpredictable consequences.  Unpredictable?  Nah.  No mere market turmoil can dissuade RBN from sticking out our collective necks to peer into the crystal ball for a third year in a row  for 2015 – Year of the Goat.  Really.  We did not make that up.

In time honored RBN blogging tradition – we’ve been at this blogging business three years –we look back today at the 250 blogs posted this year to see which ones had the highest hit rates.  The number of hits any blog gets tells you a lot about what is going on in the energy markets – which topics resonate with our members, and which don’t attract much attention.  Last year the big hitter blogs came in about 17,000 hits.  This year the big numbers are closer to 50,000.  With that many folks paying attention these days it is even more important that we take a page out of the late Casey Kasem’s playbook to look at the top blogs of 2014 based on numbers of website hits.