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The main oil producing countries are all in a Cartel-esque group called OPEC, stands for Oil Producing Economic Countries, and they get together every so often and set the prices to a certain extent to control supply of oil and thus the price.

All the countries in OPEC (as far as i am aware) can produce a lot more oil however lots more oil = prices falling which they don't want.

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