| OPEC’s strategy to defend market share rather than target a price is working as crude gains amid rising demand and declining output from producers including U.S. shale wells, Kuwait’s acting oil minister said.
Oil will end the year at $50/bbl and the market will rebalance in the third or fourth quarter, Anas Al-Saleh said in an interview Wednesday in Kuwait City. Kuwait will stick to OPEC’s strategy of pumping to win customers, he said. Demand is growing and about 3 MMbpd of crude supply have been lost to interruptions or because some producers have been priced out of the market, he said...............................................Full Article: Source
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