“In the next few months, everyone in the oil market will be intently watching the volume of new drilling activity in the shale plays of the United States for any signs of a slowdown in response to the fall in oil prices,” Reuters columnist John Kemp wrote a couple of days ago. We may well...“In the next few months, everyone in the oil market will be intently watching the volume of new drilling activity in the shale plays of the United States for any signs of a slowdown in response to the fall in oil prices,” Reuters columnist John Kemp wrote a couple of days ago. We may well...