By calling for an urgent OPEC+ meeting to discuss oil price stabilization under pressure from President Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia has admitted defeat in its price war against Russia, Mamdouh Salameh, a visiting professor of Energy Economics at ESCP Europe Business School said. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency …
Read More »OPEC, Allies Likely to Make Oil Output Cuts if US Joins
The group of oil producers known as OPEC+, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, are likely to agree to cut production at a meeting scheduled for Thursday as long as the United States joins in cutting output, three OPEC+ sources told Reuters. A previous production-cut deal ended last month after Russia …
Read More »Russia Warns against Increasing Oil Output
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 …
Read More »Crude Oil Prices Fall Sharply as Saudi Arabia, Russia Postpone Meeting to Cut Production
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 …
Read More »Gazprom’s LNG Megaproject Doomed to Fail
The gas giant Gazprom is no longer in the spotlight after the US Treasury sanctioned Rosneft, the Russian national oil company, most probably triggering the collapse of the OPEC+ agreement and bringing about an unexpectedly low pricing environment for March 2020 within both the oil and gas segments. Having launched …
Read More »Saudi Arabia: It was Russia that Pulled out of OPEC+ Deal
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 …
Read More »Oil Holds Near $20 as Saudis Surge, Russia Stands Pat on Output
Oil held near $20 a barrel as Saudi Aramco’s output surged above 12 million barrels a day, but Russia said it would refrain from further production hikes.
Read More »Russians Open Door to Talks, as Saudis Charge Ahead with 12 MMbpd Output
Saudi Arabia showed no sign of bowing to pressure from President Donald Trump to dial back the oil-price war with Russia as the kingdom pushed crude supply to record levels.
Read More »Trump Says the U.S., Russia, Saudi Arabia to Meet on Oil Price Crash
President Donald Trump said the U.S. would meet with Saudi Arabia and Russia with the goal of staunching an historic plunge in oil prices.
Read More »Kremlin: No Talks yet of New Deal to Replace OPEC+ to Stabilize Oil Market
There are yet no talks about a possible new deal to replace the OPEC+ agreements, Russian presidential spokesman, Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. “So far, no one has started talking about any specific deals or even abstract deals to replace OPEC+,” he said, answering a question from TASS about whether …
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