U.S. producers can’t generate cashflow and production growth at $50 per barrel oil, according to Energy Aspects. U.S. producers can’t generate cashflow and production growth at $50 per barrel oil. That’s what Virendra Chauhan of Energy Aspects outlined in a television interview with CNBC on Wednesday. “$50 oil is not a level at which U.S. producers can generate cashflow and production growth, so we do expect a slowdown there, and that’s going to set up for a constructive second half of the year we think,” Chauhan told CNBC in the interview. “I think there are select companies which will survive but as an industry … certainly at $50 per barrel the [shale] industry does not generate enough cashflow to be able to entice investors,” he added. In a Bloomberg radio interview on December 19, John Kilduff, founding partner of Again Capital Management LLC, outlined that we were getting into […]