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. Data published last week by the U.S. Energy Information Administration show that imports from Saudi Arabia in the week to July 14 fell to their lowest for seven years: just 524,000 barrels a day. For sure, one week’s number doesn’t mean much on its own, particularly when a single very large crude tanker could raise or lower that figure by half. But this isn’t an isolated figure. The EIA data show a clear drop in deliveries from Saudi Arabia since the […]