May
MANAGEMENT ISSUES
Oil and gas activity rises amid elevated uncertainty
Most U.S. operators in Fed District 11 indicated in the original first-quarter 2026 survey that they expected market conditions to improve modestly, influenced partially by the early part of the Iran war. Fed District 11 analysts conducted a special, extra first-quarter survey to re-check executives’ attitudes and found most of them expect prices to remain higher than before hostilities began.
