Wednesday, 14 December 2011

FT Alphaville » The Saudi production puzzle

Last week it transpired that Saudi Arabian oil production had hit its highest level in three years.

As Bloomberg reported at the time:

Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude exporter, boosted output last month to the most in more than three decades to meet customer demand. “We produced 10 million and 40 barrels in November because that’s what the customers wanted,” Ali al-Naimi said in an interview in Durban, South Africa, where he is attending a climate conference. That’s the highest level since at least 1980, according to data from the U.S. Energy Department. The desert nation pumped 9.4 million barrels a day in October, al- Naimi said on Nov. 20.

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