Saudi Arabia may have won a brief no-holds-barred oil price war with Russia, but observers say it hastened a coronavirus-led energy slump despite a subsequent historic deal to slash production. “This has changed everything,” chief economist at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Monica Malik told Bloomberg in an article published on …
Read More »OPEC+ Participants will Contact each other to Reconcile Positions if Necessary
Participants of OPEC+ deal will contact each other if necessary, but so far there are no decisions on holding such meetings, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday. “We have all mechanisms to reconcile positions with our partners in this deal, and proper contacts will be carried out if …
Read More »Russia has Reserves to Mitigate Situation on Oil Market
The Russian government will use the available resources to mitigate the negative effects of falling world oil prices on the Russian economy, Russian Presidential Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday. “The main thing here is that our government, our leadership has all the necessary reserves to dampen the negative …
Read More »Coronavirus Harms the Oil Market more than OPEC Disputes
The coronavirus pandemic is harming the oil market way more than the price dispute between OPEC and its allies OPEC+, RBN Energy chief executive Rusty Braziel told CNBC on Monday. RBN Energy is a Houston-based privately held energy commodities analytics company that plays a role between physical markets and financial …
Read More »Trump Wants to Add 75 MMbbl to SPR, Considers Blocking Saudi Shipments
President Donald Trump said he wants to add as much as 75 million barrels of oil to the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, taking advantage of record low prices for crude, and that he’ll consider blocking imports of crude from Saudi Arabia. Oil is at “a level that’s very interesting to …
Read More »America Describes the Oil Collapse as Short Term
US President Donald Trump described the historic collapse in oil prices as short-term and caused by “financial pressure,” adding that his administration would consider stopping oil shipments from Saudi Arabia. Trump said at a daily press conference that his administration also plans to increase the level of crude oil stockpiles …
Read More »Nicolas Maduro Proposes Holding Meeting of OPEC+ Monitoring Committee on May 10
Earlier on Monday, the Kremlin’s press service reported that Putin and Maduro had a phone conversation discussing the situation on the world oil market MOSCOW, April 20. /TASS/. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro proposed holding a meeting of the committee to monitor the implementation of the OPEC+ agreement on May 10, …
Read More »Kurdistan Commits to OPEC+ Oil Output Cut
Kurdistan is committed to the OPEC+ oil production cut deal and will reduce output accordingly, the government of the semi-autonomous Iraqi region said in a statement following a meeting between Kurdish and Iraqi officials. Reuters reported that at the meeting, the two sides had agreed that Kurdistan would report monthly …
Read More »Russia’s Oil Producers Told by Ministry to Cut Output by Fifth
Russia’s oil producers have been told by the Energy Ministry to cut their production by about a fifth to comply with the new OPEC+ deal starting May 1, said two people with knowledge of the matter. After days of consultations on how to divide the supply curbs, companies were instructed …
Read More »African Oil Producers to Readjust Fuel Production in Line with OPEC advisory
APPO members have committed to cutting daily oil production to 10 million barrels a day, with effect from May 1 2020.
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