One analyst suggests the market could see a repeat of the 2020 oil price war.
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"Saudi Arabia is fed up," Simon Henderson, director of the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at The Washington Institute, told Business Insider.
However, some kind of confrontation with Saudi Arabia may be stirring.
"Unlike Saudi Arabia, its oil is not cheap to extract, making it poorly equipped to deal with low-price conditions.
Persons:
—, Luke Cooper, hasn't, Simon Henderson, Bernstein, it's, Henderson, Vladimir Putin, Alexander Novak, Cooper
Organizations:
Service, Organization of Petroleum, Russia, London School of Economics, Financial Times, Gulf and Energy, The Washington Institute, OPEC
Locations:
Saudi Arabia, Russia, Riyadh, Ukraine, Gulf, Moscow, Iran, Kazakhstan