for more of the story we can speak to claudia kemper she's an expert in energy economics and sustainability with the german institute for economic research claudia thanks for joining us here in d.w. this pandemic as we know has really devastated the global economy what is the impact been on the global oil prices. well the ore price hass collapsed not only because of the pandemic crisis we already saw on january steep cuts also because of a dispute between saudi arabia and russia and all this drives your price down. this is all driving the price down we know the supply is rising there is a huge oversupply of crude oil on the market right now what can producers do to tackle this problem i mean will cutting supply further actually help. while it depends on whether the opec countries are really able to cut the demand because $10000000.00 barrels a day is a large amount if they are able to do so the oversupply will be 0 because the i assume it's because of the economic crisis demand cut down $2000000.00 barrels a day if there would be a $10000000000.00 barrels supply cut then we would have a lot