The federal government intends to restrict Kurdistan Region by OPEC agreement to reduce crude oil production. The advisor to the Prime Minister, Mathar Muhammad Salih indicated in a statement quoted by the semi-official newspaper, Al-Sabah, in its Sunday edition, to what he called “the importance of the oil ministry restricting …
Read More »US Increase Pressure on Saudis as Negotiators Wrestle over Historic Oil Deal
The US stepped up pressure on Saudi Arabia to seal a historic deal to cut oil production as negotiations that President Donald Trump himself has brokered dragged on for a third day. Talks aimed at ending a price war that’s savaging the US oil industry and threatening petrostates’ budgets continued …
Read More »Saudi Arabia Delays Release of Oil Price Data Again as Mexico Refuses to Yield on Output Cuts
On Thursday, Riyadh, Moscow and other OPEC+ members and partners tentatively agreed to cut crude output by some 10 million barrels per day (bpd) over the next two months, with the deal requiring each country to cut about 23 percent of its output. Saudi state-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco has …
Read More »OPEC+ Output Cut Decision will have a Major Impact
United Arab Emirates’ energy minister Suhail Al Mazrouei said on Saturday that an OPEC+ decision to cut oil supply will have a major impact on rebalancing the oil market amid the coronavirus outbreak. “The group’s decision to cut supply will be the largest ever cut in the history which will …
Read More »Efforts to Persuade Mexico to Join Oil Cuts Deal Persist
The Kremlin said on Saturday it hoped the world’s largest oil producers would come to a consensus on output cuts and that negotiators were still trying to persuade Mexico to take part in a deal, TASS news agency reported. OPEC, led by Saudi Arabia, and its allies, led by Russia, …
Read More »Trump Calls OPEC+ Deal a Very Acceptable Agreement
President Donald Trump said a tentative agreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia to cut global oil production is a very acceptable agreement.
Read More »Mexico Accepts Oil Output Deal, Says Trump Resolved Its Impasse with OPEC+
Mexico said it has reached an agreement with OPEC+ for deep oil-production cuts, after an intervention from U.S. President Donald Trump resolved an overnight impasse.
Read More »OPEC+ Clinch 10mbd Output Cut Deal
The coalition of oil producers at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and their non-OPEC allies had agreed to curtail the group’s output by 10 mbd.
Read More »G20 Ministers Struggle to Agree on Oil Output Cuts as Pandemic Weakens Demand
Top oil producers struggled to finalise production cuts during a virtual summit held by G20 energy ministers on Friday, despite US President Donald Trump’s mediation efforts to end a standoff with Mexico. The final G20 communique appeared to gloss over simmering divisions over energy policy, making no mention of output …
Read More »OPEC Says Top Oil Producers Except Mexico Agree to Output Cuts
Major oil producers except Mexico agreed to cut output in May and June by 10 million barrels per day, OPEC said on Friday, after marathon talks to counter a collapse in prices. The videoconference led by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has been seen as the best chance …
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