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This Time Is Different: Outside OPEC+, Oil Growth Stalls
By Javier Blas
May 30, 2021, 12:00 AM EDT
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-30/this-time-is-different-outside-opec-oil-growth-stalls
βThis time is differentβ may be the most dangerous words in business: billions of dollars have been lost betting that history wonβt repeat itself. And yet now, in the oil world, it looks like this time really will be.
For the first time in decades, oil companies arenβt rushing to increase production to chase rising oil prices as Brent crude approaches $70. Even in the Permian, the prolific shale basin at the center of the U.S. energy boom, drillers are resisting their traditional boom-and-bust cycle of spending.