When it comes to the oil market, the narrative over the past year, ever since OPEC’s first aborted its meeting last April, has been just one: limit crude supply in hopes of rebalancing the oil market, reducing excess inventories, in the process sending the price of oil higher. However, echoing what we have warned for many months, overnight the world’s biggest independent oil trader said OPEC’s efforts could be in vain because the oil producing cartel is seeking to control the wrong thing: it’s not a matter of supply, but global demand which is simply not there. (Click to enlarge) According to Vitol Group, the world’s biggest independent oil trader, demand isn’t expanding as much as expected, and U.S. shale output is growing faster than forecast, Bloomberg reports. As a logical outcome, that’s increasing the burden on the world’s biggest producers, who need to stick to their pledges to […]