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Oil price will climb over $60-mark soon – Ibe Kachikwu

By Bloomberg
24 January 2017   |   3:16 pm
Nigerian Petroleum Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu discusses the impact of OPEC production cuts and U.S. shale oil drilling on oil prices and talks about his nation's oil output.

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