Monday, December 28, 2015

A New Ceiling for Oil Prices by Anatole Kaletsky - Project Syndicate

A New Ceiling for Oil Prices by Anatole Kaletsky - Project Syndicate



Under this competitive logic, the marginal cost of US shale oil would become a ceiling for global oil prices, whereas the costs of relatively remote and marginal conventional oilfields in OPEC and Russia would set a floor. As it happens, estimates of shale-oil production costs are mostly around $50, while marginal conventional oilfields generally break even at around $20. Thus, the trading range in the brave new world of competitive oil should be roughly $20 to $50.




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