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US oil production may have peaked

Although WTI crude oil prices have partially rebounded from their second-quarter nadir, oil production in the US has yet to recover. We suspect that low prices and producers struggling to source financing will mean that US oil output won’t recover to pre-virus levels by end-2022, if it ever does.

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