Oil price retreat temporary: analyst

“While further consolidation is possible in the near term, the underlying upward trend remains firmly in place in our opinion,” the analysts said.

Global consumption exceeds 80 million barrels a day, up sharply on the 55 million barrels a day consumed in the 1970s, and was likely to rise much further as China and India continued to industrialise in the next two decades, it said.

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