From today's Independent (U.K.):
Technorati tags: Energy, Politics, Economics, Oil, Saudi Arabia, Exxon
Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil producer, and Exxon Mobil, the largest oil company, yesterday declared that the world had decades' worth of oil to come, in an attempt to calm fears about the record prices experienced in recent weeks.Well, there's at least one blogger who's expressing some doubts about this story. And here's another that says the real problem is refining capacity.
Forming a powerful alliance, the Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi said, at an industry conference in Johannesburg, that the country would soon almost double its "proven" reserve base, while Exxon's president, Rex Tillerson, spoke of 3 trillion or more barrels of oil that are yet to be recovered.
Technorati tags: Energy, Politics, Economics, Oil, Saudi Arabia, Exxon
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