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OPEC’s El-Badri: $200 Oil Possible If There's Lack of Investment
OPEC’s secretary-general said oil prices as high as $200 a barrel are possible if producers fail to invest in new supply. “If you don’t invest in oil and gas, you will see more than $200,” Abdalla El-Badri said in an interview in London on Monday, without giving a timeframe. West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. crude benchmark, erased a decline of as much as 2.7 percent following his comments. Crude prices tumbled 46 percent last year as Saudi Arabia and other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said they wouldn’t curb output in response to a supply glut caused in part by surging U.S. ... (full story)