Even a Saudi-Russia Truce Would Be Too Late to Save OPEC+ Legacy

  • G-20 call Thursday will try to forge amnesty in oil-price war
  • Goldman Sachs sees inventories piling up by 20 million b/d

Oil storage tanks stand at the RN-Tuapsinsky refinery in Tuapse, Russia, on March 23.

Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
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Even if Riyadh and Moscow ended their fight for oil-market share now, everything they achieved together over three years of OPEC+ would still go up in smoke.

The U.S. has used the build-up to Thursday’s emergency teleconference between leaders of Group of 20 nations to urge a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia, which is chairing the event, and Russia.