Saudi Arabia unlikely to resort to “oil weapon”

We do not expect Saudi Arabia to cut oil production in response to US criticism over a missing journalist, not least because it will want to preserve the “anti-Iran axis” with the US. However, if the Kingdom were to cut output on a similar scale as it did in the 1970s, a price of $150 per barrel would not be unrealistic.

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