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Slugcatcher on the challenge of herding wildcats

If herding cats sounds tricky Slugcatcher suggests you try herding wildcats, those independently-minded oil explorers who are the bedrock of US oil, the same people Donald Trump reckons he can get to stop doing what they've always done: drill for oil.

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  A decline in US oil production is already underway courtesy of the spectacular price crash but there could soon be demands for deeper cuts which the US president will find hard to deliver. A big...

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