Shale Oil Output Increase Unlikely to Have Significant Effect on Markets

© AP Photo / Hasan JamaliIn response to the high cost of US shale, Saudi Arabia has been selling its massive stockpile of crude oil at rock-bottom prices.
In response to the high cost of US shale, Saudi Arabia has been selling its massive stockpile of crude oil at rock-bottom prices. - Sputnik International
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Increase of shale oil production will not have significant impact on global energy markets, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Thursday.

NAGATO (Japan), (Sputnik) – He added that volumes of shale oil production would rise both in the medium and in the long term.

“We should not fear that shale oil will be, so to say, a source for competition because all oil-producing and oil-exporting countries are ready to influence the market and the current [oil] prices … will perhaps stimulate growing production of shale oil but not in such volumes as those in the period of high prices because $50-55 per barrel is much lower [than before]. And in this context we believe that nothing extraordinary will occur if a bit more shale oil is produced,” Novak told reporters.

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