A Bloomberg piece on the extent of the oil demand shock, citing " people with inside knowledge of the country's energy industry".

  • Chinese oil demand has dropped by about three million barrels a day
  • or 20% of total consumption
  • probably the largest demand shock the oil market has suffered since the global financial crisis … and the most sudden since the Sept. 11 attacks

Late Friday Adam posted on some other factors hitting the oil price:

Stick this all together and you'd have to wonder about the next OPEC+ move.

Emergency meeting? Cut harder?