Chinese Growth Provides Impetus for Fluid Crude Oil Supply Mix

Chinese oil majors have been on a substantial buying run over the past four years, peaking at $35bn worth of mergers and acquisitions activity in 2012 according to Dealogic. As a result, IEA’s chief economist, Fatih Birol, was quoted in the Financial Times earlier this week saying that the country is “set to become a major producing country outside of its borders,” rivaling the domestic production of OPEC countries Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Download here