US shale oil drillers finally cave in as Opec dismisses output cut
New York
US oil drillers are finally beginning to buckle. For more than a year, American oil producers found a way to keep pumping despite a worldwide slide in crude prices. Like the cartoon character Wile E Coyote, US drillers dashed off the cliff and somehow kept running in midair, maintaining volumes even as revenue plummeted.
The companies' latest projections, released in earnings reports in recent days, suggest that gravity is finally taking hold.
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