Rigzone surveys oil and gas experts on a variety of issues expected to confront the industry during the next 12 months. As we move toward the conclusion of a difficult year across the energy space, it’s time to contemplate what surprises – upward or downward – the industry may experience in 2016. What might work next year that was a disappointment in 2015, and who might the folks be to make magic happen again in the oil patch? As such, we went to the analysts, accountants and bankers who are intimately involved with the success or failure of oil and gas in North America. Between mid-November and early December, we surveyed our panel of experts – J. Marshall Adkins, director of research at Raymond James & Associates; Ethan Bellamy, managing director at Robert W. Baird & Co.; Deborah Byers, U.S. oil & gas leader and managing partner at EY; […]