is going to be the last man standing, and every molecule of hydrocarbon will come out.
The comments by bin Salman heralded as the most powerful man in the global oil and gas industry came shortly after the latest OPEC+ agreement and mirrored those by Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser, who expressed similar sentiments back in January 2019.
And this might not be idle bluster: In late 2019, Neil Atkinson, head of the oil industry and markets division at the International Energy Agency, told CNBC that, There s going to be rising demand for at least the next decade for oil products, possibly longer, and this is cementing [Saudi Arabia s] role as the cornerstone player in global markets, the most reliable and biggest supplier in markets.