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G20 energy ministers have agreed to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss global collaboration with OPEC+ oil production cuts. Boosting the price of crude is an economic imperative for members such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, but the majority of the group of major economies arguably have more …

Increasing oil production will not serve the interests of any country, Russia warned yesterday, stressing that Russian President Vladimir Putin was seeking “constructive negotiations aimed at stabilizing the global energy market.” “Russia did not back the termination of OPEC+ deal – The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries,” Russia Today …

Global crude oil prices fell sharply on Monday morning, as uncertainty loomed in the market after Saudi Arabia and Russia postponed to April 9 a meeting about a potential pact to cut production, Reuters reported. The prices of West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude traded over $3 lower before slightly …

The Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Oil, Thamer Al-Ghadban attributed on Sunday the postponement of the conference of oil producing and exporting countries, until next Thursday due to “technical reasons”. Al-Ghadban said, in a statement to the official newspaper, “Al-Sabah”, that “the conference that was scheduled to take place …

President of Vienna Energy Research Group believes the Iranian economy was oil-reliant but the country learnt, under US sanctions, how to scaffold its oil industry and economic structure over the years.

Oil prices have collapsed recently both due to the lowered demand amid the rapid spread of COVID-19 and OPEC+’s failure to reach an agreement on cutting oil output in April. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he “does not care about OPEC” and that he will put tariffs on …

Oil prices suffered their worst decline in decades in March after Russia and Saudi Arabia failed to reach a deal on output cuts amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo is in constant contact with the OPEC+ countries; the main participants in the group support the idea …

OPEC and its allies will not hold their emergency virtual meeting on Monday and will likely postpone it until April 8 or 9 to allow more time for negotiations among oil producers on crude supply cuts, two OPEC sources said on Saturday.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign and energy ministers on Saturday denied Russia’s claim that the Kingdom abandoned the OPEC+ deal, leading to a collapse in world oil prices. In a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said “a statement attributed to one of the …

The Saudi-led OPEC group of oil producers and their allies will meet on Monday via video conference, a source close to OPEC said on Friday, to seek to boost oil prices which have tumbled by two-thirds since the beginning of the year. Top world crude exporter Saudi Arabia on Thursday …