Publication Name: PESA Journal
Authors: B. Foster
Publication Issue: 2
Date Published: February 1983
Number of Pages: 5
Abstract:
Although with difficulty, Saudi Arabia should maintain a tenuous balance between supply and demand, thus preserving the US$34/bl crude oil marker price until 1985. Thereafter, prices are likely to rise in line with inflation or a little more rapidly, depending on the strength of world economic recovery. It may be the end ofthedecade, or even later, but the inevitable forces of supply and demand for a wasting resource will finally push real prices sharply upwards again - the third oil shock.