Oil

Oil Prices should Reach about $35-40 Per Barrel

Oil prices should reach about $35-40 per barrel, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov said in an interview with the ‘Vesti v Subbotu’ (News on Saturday) program on the Rossiya-1 TV channel. “My estimation is that [the prices] will adjust at the level of about $35-40. There are other …

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Kremlin: Russia Would Like to See Crude Prices Higher

With oil plummeting near an 18-year low amid unprecedented supply and demand shocks, Russia finally admitted: crude is too cheap. “Of course it’s a low price, we would like to see it higher,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on a conference call, signaling for the first time that the country’s …

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Current Oil Price Is Low

The Kremlin believes that the current oil prices level is low, presidential press secretary, Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday. “Certainly, this is a low price; we would like to have it higher,” Peskov said, responding to a question whether the oil price of about $27 a barrel is suitable …

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Oil Crisis Too Large for SPR Fix

On March 13, President Trump proposed using the Department of Energy to buy oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in a bid to soak up some surplus oil from the market. Oil prices received a jolt on the news just before the close of trading on Friday. However, the …

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World Is Heading for Biggest Ever Oil Surplus

After a dizzying drop in demand and an about-face in Saudi Arabian production policy, global oil markets face the possibility of the biggest crude surplus ever recorded, according to IHS Markit.Should the price war between the kingdom and Russia persist and the world tip into recession due to the coronavirus, …

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Saudi Arabia’s Terrible Decision

Those with a functioning memory may have thought that last week’s decision by Saudi Arabia to maximize oil production to crash oil prices and bankrupt U.S. shale producers was an early April Fool’s Day joke. Apparently, though, it is not, and collective amnesia seems to have gripped senior Saudis and …

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