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The Coming Oil Shock.(International Edition; Energy Strategy)

Newsweek International

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Byline: Rana Foroohar

One of the many reasons that oil prices spiked to $150 earlier this year is that in the 1990s, when prices were $12 a barrel, oil firms stopped looking for new reserves. That resulted in supply shortages and, when demand for oil picked up this decade, spiraling oil price inflation.

Now the same vicious cycle may be starting again. At a recent conference in Barcelona, Fu Chengyu, the head of the Chinese state oil giant CNOOC, said that he had met with the heads of 27 state oil firms, and that some 60 percent of planned exploration and development projects slated to begin in the next two years were being canceled because they were pegged to $70 ...

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