23.03.2015 - Keeping oil below $100 will shut shale out of market: Saudi official
Oil prices won’t rebound to $100 a barrel because increased prices would draw more shale and other output from higher-cost producers to the market, said Mohammad al-Madi, Saudi Arabia’s governor to OPEC. “I think it will be difficult to reach $100 or $120 another time,” Madi said at a conference in Riyadh on Sunday. “This will let the high-cost producers come back again.” Saudi Arabia, the nation leading OPEC in defending its share of the global oil market, will keep investing to maintain its current output capacity, he said. Brent oil, the global benchmark, declined almost 50 percent in the past year as Saudi Arabia and others in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries committed to maintaining output amid a global surplus. U.S. output is the highest in three decades as drillers pump crude from shale...............................................Full Article: Source
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