Oil prices will fall!

in market •  8 years ago  (edited)

Why oil prices will not grow and may even fall?
Just the facts.
At the shores of Singapore (hub between the Middle East and China) have accumulated a huge amount of supertankers facing months laid up and performing a single function - storage.

Online Location tankers

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In support of your thesis, the US frackers are getting more from each hole, as the various underlying technologies which make up a fracked hole continue to develop and improve.

Rigzone article

Not only that but the current weakness has driven much of the over leveraged 

weak players into bankruptcy, thus they are being bought by the stronger
players at bargain prices, allowing future production to continue at an even
lower cost basis as the debt loads are no longer present.

The only way oil is going to sustain at $60 or higher, outside of seasonal 

spikes such as US gulf coast hurricanes or summer driving season, is if
there is a major, extended war involving multiple oil producing
countries, or political leadership changes and the monetary and
regulatory environments change such that the world economy sees
a significant increase.