Author: McCartney

After being locked up in a exclusive agreement, our long term oil price forecast is again available. This is a 5 year forecast, issued around the 19th of every month. To get a copy, the link is below.https://blackbearddata.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Blackbeard_WTI_Forecast_2026-05-26.pdf

Our 2025 data acquisition season is coming to an end. We have 99% of the 2025 Mineral Roll data. Time to get your data now. As of Jan 1, our prices will be rising by 5% to adjust for inflation.

Well, this administration is certainly good at chaos. Due to the perpetual uncertainty it is causing with the US economy, many industries are not interested in making capital expenditures. So we were already facing a recessionary environment. Inflation remains higher

Russia has been building a shadow tanker fleet since the first warnings of an embargo were raised. They have been buying old tankers and using them to sell oil to Asia. Only takes a few voyages to payback their investment.

With the war dragging into the third month, WTI has stayed above $100/bbl. This is even with the disruption of world trade by China locking down major industrial Chinese cities. There are signs the EU will ban Russian oil and

Oil goes up and down, thrown about by supply, demand, OPEC, cold snaps, heat waves, threats of war or inflation. Everything seems to affect it. We thought it would be interesting to examine oil on its seasonality. All this is

All Blackbeard Databases will be briefly going offline on Sunday 10/24 from 3pm – 5pm

When the SARS-CoV-2 began to spread in China in February, my team forecasted the probability of the WHO declaring a pandemic. We were concerned about Covid having a much IFR (Infection Fatality Rate), approaching the 1918 IFR of 2-3%, not

We have updated some website functionality 21MAR21. If you find something off, let us know in the Report bug page.

There is a unique opportunity for mineral buyers for a few months. We all know the economic effects of Covid. High unemployment, financial stresses, sometimes a lingering sickness and an uncertain future. In Texas we have an additional economic stress