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OPINION | Volatile prices, decimating demand: The evolving politics of oil

June 18, 2020
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OPINION  | Volatile prices, decimating demand: The evolving politics of oil
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  • The broader oil industry has been one of the world’s most important industrial sectors for the past 100 years and has been closely entwined with politics.
  • The Covid-19 pandemic has been decimating global oil demand. 
  • Oil demand is normally correlated with the global economic cycle, but is now fraught with uncertainties thrown up by an entirely new set of factors.
  • As investors, we should expect a six to 18-month period, if not longer, where oil prices are volatile and likely to languish close to $40 per barrel.

We built the modern economy on a global logistical supply chain that could not function without oil and its downstream derivatives. This dependence on oil has enabled the broader oil industry to be remarkably profitable. It has been one of the world’s more important industrial sectors for much of the past 100 years.

And because of the scale of the oil industry, it has always been closely entwined with politics. Since its genesis in the late 19th century, the oil industry has drawn more controversy than most others. Oil has caused wars, assassinations, man-made disasters, coups and still affects every person in the world today.

A brief history

Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait after an oil production dispute dragged the US back into Middle Eastern conflict. US efforts to secure its oil supply, principally from major producer Saudi Arabia, has embroiled it in regional conflict ever since. Ensuring Saudi stability in the strife-torn region has demanded costly US political and defence support.

More recently, elevated oil prices made new US oil fracking production profitable and the US has doubled its oil production over the past decade. The US has once again become the largest oil producer in the world, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. The US is no longer reliant on imports and it is now re-evaluating its expensive and divisive Middle Eastern involvement.

In the meantime, China’s economy burgeoned, and the oil-dry country is now the world’s largest oil importer. Simultaneously, Putin’s Russia is smarting at its post-communism loss of geopolitical influence. Putin has been cosying up to Chinese President Xi, realising Russia and China could work together to achieve greater global geopolitical authority.

The current oil imbroglio

In late 2016, Russia and the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) worked together to support oil prices from the relatively low levels of mid-$40 per barrel. Prices recovered and a new, extended OPEC oligopoly – dubbed OPEC-Plus – seemed entrenched. 

When oil prices started falling from $65 at the beginning of 2020, Putin conceived an opportunity to decimate oil prices and thus strike at the booming US shale oil industry while cementing Russia’s goodwill with oil-importer, China. In early March, he chose not to support the OPEC-Plus call for production cuts and encouraged Russian oil companies to instead ramp up production. The Saudis responded by increasing their own production and the supply glut caused a further weakening of prices. 

The rapidly spreading Covid-19 pandemic was…



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