| OPEC’s top official said Sunday that the cartel’s decision to keep pumping crude in the face of collapsing prices is hurting the U.S. shale-oil industry and a global pullback on investment could lead to a shortage that will push the market upward again.
“Projects are being canceled. Investments are being revised. Costs are being squeezed,” said Abdalla Salem el-Badri, the secretary general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, at the Middle East Oil and Gas conference in Bahrain. “If we don’t have more supply, there will be a shortage and the price will rise again.”..............................................Full Article: Source
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