Julian Lee, Columnist

Saudi Arabia Turns Off the U.S. Oil Tap

Riyadh takes direct action to reduce the world's most visible crude glut. It may be too late.
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At last, Saudi Arabia seems to be doing what it takes to reduce the world's most visible oil glut: the one in the U.S.

Unfortunately, its renewed vigor comes as OPEC's deal to reduce excess crude stockpiles starts to show signs of unraveling elsewhere, a subject that will be wrestled with by the group's oil ministers as they and other producer nations meet in St Petersburg on Monday.