Saudi Arabia Potential DOOMSDAY Oil Market BLACK SWAN!

Commodities / Saudi Arabia Sep 22, 2022 - 10:18 PM GMT

Yes here's another potential black swan brewing in the background as the world continues to reel from the impact of high oil prices with the blame firmly being placed at the feet of Czar Putin, so I trundled along to take a look under the hood of the oil market and I noticed something strange that could result in an oil market DOOMSDAY Black Swan event!

Look at the graph of proven Saudi Arabian oil reserves and what do you see?

Constant proven reserves that hovered at 30.9 billion metric tonnes for decades but then jumped in to 40.9 billion around the time when there was much media hype surrounding IPO for Saudi Aramco in December 2019 when the Saudis sold a 1.5% stake that valued the Energy giant at $2 trillion, with current plans to sell a further $50 billion of shares this year.

Do you see it?

How the hell are Saudi oil reserves constant at 30.9 billion for decades and then jump to 40.9 billion ahead of the IPO when Saudi Arabia pumps out 550 million metric tonnes of oil per year, that's 22 billion tonnes of oil over the past 40 years!

Does Saudi Arabia actually have 40 billion metric tonnes of oil or is this the mother of all ENRON's! Hence why Saudi Arabia is eager to sell more shares in Saudi Aramco before the shit hits the fan and we find out that Saudi Arabia's oil reserves are a function of a horizontal line drawn by the hand of MBS himself and his father before him, the real reserves are likely 31 minus 22 = 9 billion metric tonnes, enough to continue conning the world for perhaps another 16-18 years, instead of the implied 75 years.

This also explains why Saudi Arabia is refusing to open the oil taps and increase supply even though it would profit hugely from doing so, it's because THEY CANNOT INCREASE OUTPUT! The max output of Saudi oil fields has been stuck at 10.5 million barrels per day for decades! All they need to do to increase supply is drill a few more wells, but why would they do that if it means.

a. They will run out oil sooner.

b. That the new oil wells will only have a short shelf life.

What would it mean for oil prices when the Saudi Emperor is found to have no oil? Oil price X2? X3? X4? And what if similar is true for other oil gulf states such as Iran, Iraq and Kuwait reminds me of the Milkshake scene out of "There will be Blood".

The bottom line is this potential Black Swan could rock the world's economic and geopolitical system if Saudi Arabia was found to have lied about it's oil reserves, the clear winners would be Russia and Venezuela, I can imagine the Americans kowtowing to Venezuela, let bygones be bygones, ce sara sara, Auld Lang Syne and all that, North and South Americans are brothers and sisters, now SELL us your OIL you bas....ds.

Your analyst feeling the urge to increase exposure to oil stocks before the mother of all milkshake scams is revealed!

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