The response of US shale production over the next two months may well impact how OPEC decides to finalize the tentative production freeze it announced last week in Algiers, the head of the US Energy Information Administration says. “Shale has dramatically changed the kind of strategy that OPEC was employing,” Adam Sieminski told S&P Global Platts on Wednesday. “OPEC will be looking at our production statistics and if they saw US production beginning to recover, would make difference to what they were doing,” Sieminski said an energy seminar at Japan’s Institute of Energy Economics. Article Continues below… Oilgram News brings you fast-breaking global petroleum and gas news on and including: Industry players, upstream and downstream markets, refineries, midstream transportation and financial reports Supply and demand trends, government actions, exploration and technology […]