Data from Opec’s latest Annual Statistical Bulletin, released last month, largely reinforce the picture given by the Baker Hughes data. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are two of only three Opec countries to have drilled substantially more wells in 2015 than 2014 (the third, Algeria, has recently taken an axe to spending – MEES, 27 May – so 2015 gains are likely to have gone into reverse this year). (CONTINUED - 142 WORDS)