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Opinion: How Much Longer Can OPEC Hold Out?

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The EIA even predicts that OPEC’s net oil exports (excluding Iran) could fall to as low as $380 billion in 2015. Cheap oil has created a huge financial crisis for Venezuela as its economy is heavily dependent on oil exports and oil revenues constitute about 95% of its total foreign exchange earnings. Iraq’s Issues.

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Saudis Expand Price War Downstream

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In June 2015, Saudi Arabia pumped a record 10.564 million barrels a day, a record level. The crude is so cheap it’s pretty much free for them, the margins are going to be massive. Indian refiners are now buying more crude oil from Nigeria, Iraq, Venezuela and Mexico. per barrel in first quarter of 2015).

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Under the central New Policies Scenario, automotive sales in non-OECD markets exceed those in the OECD by 2020, with the center of gravity of car manufacturing shifting to non-OECD countries before 2015. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. trillion in subsidies over the projection period.

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