Why oil prices did not go to $200

Global oil markets absorbed shocks partly because importers such as South Korea rapidly substituted Canadian barrels for collapsed Saudi imports

We've learned a ton about global oil markets in the past 3 months. They're much more resilient and resourceful than $200 oil implicitly assumed. South Korea's imports from Saudi collapsed, so it imported lots more Canadian oil. That buffere
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