Abstract
Shale oil production is considered to be one of the important determinants of oil price slump in 2014-2016. According to some experts, shale oil became a new market regulator, ousted OPEC. Shale oil production is characterized by non-trivial dynamics. After an accelerated growth in 2010-2015, a period of fluctuations in production caused by the volatility of oil prices followed. The paper develops approach to the shale production modelling on the base of the analytical solutions of differential equation with retarded argument. The differential equation reflects the fact that production change consists of a sum of new debits and the natural process of base production decline. Besides, possibilities of origination and prerequisites of endogenous economic oscillations of shale oil production are studied. Calculations, implemented for economic and technological characteristics given for period from December 2014 to May 2017, showed a possibility of existence of oil production oscillation with period of 33 month, that does not contradict to observations. In general, the proposed approach can be used as a nonlinear structural method for forecasting oil production and corresponding price component, connected with production change.
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