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Growth in US oil production to remain sluggish

While we expect both drilling activity and oil production in the US to pick up slightly over the next year or so, we doubt it will return to pre-pandemic levels anytime soon. This should keep the Brent-WTI spread narrow but is unlikely to prevent oil prices from falling.

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