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A bottom for oil prices? Producers seek signs

The recent oil price rally raised hopes among producers that the worst may be over when it comes to a slump that has persisted for 14 months now. Even the venerable International Energy Agency suggested recently that oil prices may be on a rebound after having fallen below $30 a barrel earlier this year. “For prices, there may be a light at the end of what has been a long, dark tunnel,” the IEA said in its March oil report. “But we cannot be precisely sure when in 2017 the oil market will achieve the much-desired balance.” (Read more)

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Oil producers see price slump outlasting recent rally

Oil prices have rallied lately, but not enough to persuade producers that a nearly year-old slump will end any time soon. Take Doug Suttles, the president and CEO of Alberta, Canada-based Encana Corp., who was in the midst of transforming his company from primarily natural gas production to oil production when oil prices began to plunge last June. (Read More)

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