The immediate outlook for oil prices remains bleak. The downturn in oil has caused pain across the energy supply chain, including to shippers, private oil drillers and oil-dependent countries from Venezuela and Russia to the Middle East.
Oil began falling in mid-2014 as surging output from OPEC, Ru
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Frank Uzuegbunam
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