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Saudis Plan Big Oil Output Hike, Beginning All-Out Price War
2020-03-08
[BLOOMBERG] Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
plans to increase oil output next month, going well above 10 million barrels a day, as the kingdom responds aggressively to the collapse of its OPEC+ alliance with Russia.

The world’s largest oil exporter started a price war on Saturday by slashing the prices it sells crude into foreign markets by the most in at least 20 years, offering unprecedented discounts in Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
, the Far East and the U.S. to entice refiners to purchase Saudi crude at the expense of other suppliers.

At the same time, Saudi Arabia has privately told some market participants it could raise production much higher if needed, even going to a record of 12 million barrels a day, according to people familiar with the conversations, who asked not to be named to protect commercial relations. With demand being ravaged by the coronavirus outbreak, opening the taps like that would throw oil market into chaos.

Posted by:Fred

#6  Welcome back OP!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2020-03-08 19:10  

#5  Ref #4: OP, good to see you posting again.

Ditto! BTW, how do you want us to charge that time off ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-03-08 18:20  

#4  OP, good to see you posting again.
Posted by: Matt   2020-03-08 17:43  

#3  IIRC, the problem is Russia, who wants to destroy the fracking industry in the US. It's also in retaliation for our "interference" with their NORDSTAR pipeline program. I think in the end it will be Russia that cries "Uncle".
Posted by: Old Patriot   2020-03-08 17:13  

#2  There are no good guys in the ME. President knows about this. The question is how to disengage.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2020-03-08 11:36  

#1  The kingdom must be hard up for currency. With what I understand is a worldwide oil glut, they should get interesting as far as a bottom dropout price war.
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-03-08 11:13  

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