Sara Sjolin/MarketWatch OPEC secretary-general BarkindoOPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo on Thursday struck a decidedly sanguine tone on the outlook for crude, saying the market is balancing at an “accelerated pace” and that demand will continue to rapidly grow in the coming decades. Speaking at the Oil & Money conference in London, the head of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries cheered the group’s production cuts that came into effect in January and pointed out that there has been a ”massive drainage of oil tanks” across all regions. “A balanced oil market is now fully in sight,” Barkindo said.via