Trump Faces Bitterly Divided Oil Producers in Bid to Save Shale

(Bloomberg) — In Saudi Arabia, there is one oil company, the state-run behemoth Saudi Aramco. This makes for a fairly simple process to set policy goals when the country negotiates output quotas with rivals.In the U.S., there are more than 6,000 oil drillers — everything from tiny wildcatters in the shale patches of Texas and North Dakota to global giants like Exxon Mobil Corp.That would seem to make formulating a coherent U.S. negotiating stance next to impossible. And yet, President Donald Trump appears to be intent on seeking to broker a dramatic cut in output along with Saudi Arabia and …read more

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