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    Energy Prices Up—OCTG to Follow?

    Written by Tim Triplett


    Oil prices topped $80 per barrel this week for the first time since 2014, likely giving a boost to drilling activity and consumption of steel products such as line pipe and oil country tubular goods (OCTG). But don’t expect a big spike in the market.

    “The recent increases in oil and gas prices are certainly bullish for drilling activity, but caveats abound,” said energy market expert Kurt Minnich, president of Pipe Logix in Tulsa, Okla.

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