Via Fast FT subscription service from the Financial Times: Why the price of oil just keeps tumbling

  • Russia and Iraq exports picked up
  • New production is also expected … in West Africa, Latin America, particularly Brazil
  • Some analysts expect the arrival of several hundred thousand barrels a day of Canadian sour crude on the US Gulf Coast and a rise in exports from Kurdistan
  • Potential for more supply from Iran
  • Saudi Arabia shows no signs of conceding and a cut seems unlikely ahead of the next Opec meeting scheduled for June