As OPEC Price Hike Looms, Asia's Big Oil Buyers May Shop Elsewhere

 As OPEC Price Hike Looms, Asia's Big Oil Buyers May Shop Elsewhere

 

For the first time since 2008, OPEC is set to strike a deal to cut oil output that may boost prices. It may also give itself a bloody nose in Asia, where big buyers are ramping up supplies from elsewhere and say

 they don't want to pay more for fuel. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meets

 on Wednesday to hammer out a deal to prop up prices that have halved since 2014. As they gather, tanker shipments to Asia from non-OPEC sources like Alaska, Azerbaijan, and the...