(Bloomberg) — Oil exploration shrank for a 14th straight week in U.S. fields amid weak crude prices and skepticism about a recovery in energy demand.Drillers idled 10 oil rigs in onshore U.S. fields this week, bringing the total to 189, according to data released Friday by Baker Hughes Co. Despite this week’s rise in crude prices to a three-month high around $40 a barrel, they still are more than 35% below the January high.In the Permian Basin, the oil deposit in West Texas and New Mexico that largely drove the past decade’s surge in U.S. crude output, drillers shut off …read more
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