Market Focus: Oversupply takes center stage, fundamentals catch up with the market

In this episode, OGJ takes an updated look at the growing oversupply in global crude markets.
Dec. 9, 2025

In this Market Focus episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Conglin Xu, managing editor, economics, takes a look at the growing oversupply in global crude markets and the shift now under way as fundamentals begin overtaking sentiment and geopolitics as the primary price driver.

About the Author

Conglin Xu

Managing Editor-Economics

Conglin Xu, Managing Editor-Economics, covers worldwide oil and gas market developments and macroeconomic factors, conducts analytical economic and financial research, generates estimates and forecasts, and compiles production and reserves statistics for Oil & Gas Journal. She joined OGJ in 2012 as Senior Economics Editor. 

Xu holds a PhD in International Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She was a Short-term Consultant at the World Bank and Summer Intern at the International Monetary Fund. 

 

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