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At 50$/BBl that's 2 million barrels, or one quarter of one day's worth of oil production for Saudi Arabia alone [0]. A new technology could do far more than just 'disappearing' 100 million dollars worth of oil.

[0]https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-ne...



You wouldn't pay the market price. Its costs money to extract oil, less than $10 per barrel in Saudi Arabia, in the $20s in the US.

http://graphics.wsj.com/oil-barrel-breakdown/


OK but if I can sell 10 million barrels of oil for $750M why would I accept $100M to keep it in the ground?


You would if your extraction costs were greater than $650M. But that's not what the comment I replied to was suggesting, they were suggesting offering $750M to keep it in the ground.




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