Want to know something that you probably haven't considered, but will absolutely blow your mind? Since 2011, two of the world's top 25 oil-exporting nations -- Libya and Sudan -- have seen production completely fall off a cliff, Export volumes from Venezuela and Mexico have been on a slow decline for a decade, and Russia and the West are in the midst of a Cold War-esque standoff over Ukraine.
Yet over the last three years, the price of crude oil has not just stayed flat, it has declined. Step back and think about that for a minute. This was a market that used to go into panic mode if the king of Saudi Arabia had a bad meal, and now nearly 2 million barrels a day in production can vanish from the global market without anyone blinking an eye...........................................Full Article: Source
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