The price of oil has fluctuated wildly in the last few years and has placed a spotlight on oil investing vehicles. Of particular interest has been the discrepancy between oil investing returns and the hypothetical returns to spot oil. We attempt to understand the source of that discrepancy by...

We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). A unique and detailed dataset containing data from 109 different fields on the NCS between 1970 and 2015 was employed. A set of 1080 autoregressive distributed...

Investments in oil and gas fields are regressed against variables on panel field-data from the start of oil and gas production on the Norwegian continental shelf in 1968 until 2016. Two alternative models track the observed investments aggregated across fields from 1970 until 2016 relatively...