OPEC+ Faces 5-Year Fight to Avoid Price Meltdown, Rapidan Says

  • Booming US, other supplies threaten collapse in oil prices
  • Predictions for peak in oil demand this decade are ‘a mirage’

Oil rigs on Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas, Zulia state, Venezuela.

Photographer: Gaby Oraa/Bloomberg
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OPEC+ will need to carefully control oil supplies for another five years to avoid a “meltdown” in crude prices, according to Rapidan Energy Group.

While global oil demand won’t peak for at least another decade, supplies from outside OPEC — particularly the US — are growing much faster than previously estimated, the Washington-based consultant said in its latest long-term report.