Fierce power struggles are raging in the oil market. A Western alliance is challenging the OPEC+ cartel for supremacy, including Europe, which is challenging the market with a price ceiling for Russian oil
When a spectacular drop in oil prices threatened to further shake the pandemic-damaged global economy in April 2020, the United States, Saudi Arabia, Russia and other G20 countries united to seek a solution. The partnership helped stop an OPEC+ price war and stabilized the market again. Prices recovered. Two and a half years later and nine months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, such global power cooperation in the energy sector seems like a distant memory.