Oil industry faces a stark choice – Financial Times

This failure to find easily exploitable oil leaves the industry with a stark choice. Either companies pursue challenging, unconventional ventures with high overhead costs – which could prove unprofitable if large volumes of cheaper oil come to the market – or they continue to push to invest in countries such as Russia and Saudi Arabia, where the political climate for investment is, at best, uncertain.

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