Tag Archives: Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Oil-exporting countries in the region are expected to fare better this year as higher crude prices bolster their finances Cairo, Egypt. The Arab world’s third-largest economy was one of a few economies to escape a coronavirus-induced contraction in 2020 but growth is expected to soften this year. Reuters The Middle …

The OPEC Secretariat and the City of Vienna will jointly host the First Vienna Energy Scholar Programme (VESP) from 4 to 8 October 2021. The programme aims to provide successful candidates with the opportunity to learn about the Organization’s activities with a focus on short-, medium- and long-term energy perspectives …

OPEC and its allies expect oil inventories to fall further in the coming months, OPEC’s secretary general said on Monday, suggesting efforts by the producers to support the market are succeeding. Oil stocks in developed world nations fell by 6.9 million barrels in April, Mohammad Barkindo said in a virtual …

OPEC+ appears in control of crude prices as U.S. production is lagging pre-pandemic levels, according to a senior executive at the world’s biggest independent oil trader, Vitol Group. The decline in U.S. drilling and output leaves little competition to efforts by the producers’ group to manage markets, Mike Muller, Vitol’s …

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries oil cartel and allied producing countries (OPEC+) confirmed on Tuesday plans to gradually restore crude output by 2.1 million barrels per day (bpd). The decision was made in an online meeting earlier on Tuesday. Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman hailed a …

Oil exports from Russia in January – May 2021 fell by 13% compared to the same period last year to 91.2 mln tonnes, according to statistics released by the Central Dispatching Department of Fuel Energy Complex (CDU TEK) on Wednesday. Russia participates in the OPEC+ agreement on oil production cuts, …

Oil prices rose on Wednesday after oil cartel Opec and its allies stuck to their plan to cautiously return oil supply in June and July while expecting fuel demand to rebound strongly during the US summer. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose 32c, or 0.5%, to $68.05 at …

Climate activists who scored big against Western majors last week had some unlikely cheerleaders in the oil capitals of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Russia. Defeats in the courtroom and boardroom mean Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron are all under pressure to cut carbon emissions faster. That’s good news …

The global crude oil demand will grow by 6 mln barrels daily in 2021. The forecast is kept unchanged as compared to the April estimate, according to the final report of the OPEC+ Joint Technical Committee (JTC), with its copy seen by TASS. Committee experts had a videoconference meeting today. …

After over a year of pandemic-driven volatility and weak oil demand, Saudi Arabia is now experiencing an oil export boom. Saudi Arabia’s oil exports increased in March by 75 percent year-on-year, at a value of almost $14 billion, according to a General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) report, with crude oil …