In this Global Energy Outlook Forum Americas panel, BrianPieri says “drill baby drill” rhetoric masks weak shale economics atsub-$60 prices. Mike McGlone warns oil faces a low-price cure, with WTIpotentially testing the $40s. Aldo Flores-Quiroga argues Venezuelaunderscores geopolitical disorder, with institutional instability limitinginvestment and reshaping the Americas’ role as the world’s key oil supplygrowth region.

THE GLOBAL ENERGY OUTLOOK FORUM 2026 - AMERICAS PANEL 2

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