Saudi Arabia’s move to maintain its share of the global oil market and expand in Europe will backfire, said the chief executive officer of Russia’s largest oil producer. “The strategy that Saudi Arabia has chosen doesn’t bring any significant victories,” Igor Sechin, CEO of OAO Rosneft, said Thursday at the Eurasian Forum in Verona, Italy. “More likely the opposite.” After the U.S. cut imports amid a boom in domestic production, exporters from the Middle East are increasing output and seeking new markets, a move that isn’t helpful for the global industry, Sechin said. After oil prices slumped amid a global surplus, Middle Eastern governments have to use “billions of dollars” from sovereign funds, raise large external loans or cut spending on new cars and furniture to make up the shortfall in revenues, he said. Saudi Arabia led the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in a decision last year to […]