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You do realize that a lowering of crude prices means a lowering of prices at the pump?It must be pointed out that the last time Saudi Arabia sent this ‘preservation of market share’ signal was in 2014 when they and OPEC flooded the market with millions of barrels of additional crude. That move was in response to the then-nascent boom in US shale oil production coming mainly from the Permian Basin, the Bakken Shale, and the Eagle Ford Shale. Saudi and other OPEC officials at the time saw this US shale oil cutting into their market share and decided to mount a defense.
The result was a dramatically oversupplied market, a supply surplus that some believed reached as high as 8 million barrels of oil per day, and a collapse in crude prices. Over the next two years, more than 200 US shale producers were forced into bankruptcy, creating the worst depression in the domestic oil and gas industry since the mid-1980s. By the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia was coordinating with Russia and other big oil producing countries to form the OPEC+ cartel to raise prices to more economic levels.
Saudi Strategic Shift Raises Specter Of Another Oil Bust — Forbes
Saudi Arabia is again signaling a shift in strategy to protect global market share. The last time this happened, an oil bust was the result.apple.news