Green Car Congress
AUGUST 12, 2015
With record production of 10.564 million barrels per day in June 2015, Saudi Arabia has been one of the major driving forces behind the current oil price slump. Even when we look at the refining sector, we see that the oil kingdom has been following a similar strategy of flooding the markets with refined fuel.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 12, 2024
What’s happening is that Iran-backed Houthis have declared a blockade on the Bab al-Mandeb strait, near Yemen, in response to Israel’s attacks on Gaza – it’s a tiny chokehold to the Red Sea and a control point of all shipping between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 13, 2015
In the last quarter of 2014, in the face of possible oversupply, Saudi Arabia abandoned its traditional role as the global oil market’s swing producer and therefore it role as unofficial guarantor of existing ($100+ per barrel) prices. The Saudis obviously miscalculated the degree to which their shift would negatively impact oil prices.
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