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The Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) meeting will be held on June 8, 2020, most probably in a video format, while ministerial meetings of OPEC and non-OPEC states will be held on June 9 and 10 as planned, sources in delegations told TASS. “The JMMC meeting will be held on …

President of the OPEC Conference and Algeria’s Minister of Energy Mohamed Arkab called on OPEC and non-OPEC countries to fully implement the oil production limiting agreement, OPEC says on its website on Saturday. “In the face of unprecedented difficulties facing the oil market, it is of the utmost importance that …

Russia’s energy ministry expects that demand on the oil market will gradually restore in the second half of the year but before it happens oil producing countries should avoid filling of oil storage facilities to the full and prevent a market collapse, Minister Alexander Novak said on Sunday. “The world …

The Russian oil industry does not yet need government support, it has accumulated certain reserves, Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov said in an interview with Rossiya 24 TV channel. “So far they are managing. On the one hand, certain reserves have been accumulated, and on the other hand, …

Countries participating in the OPEC+ oil production limiting agreement have all the capabilities to respond if necessary to the situation with the low oil prices, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters. “OPEC+ countries are keeping a close eye on the situation and have all the capabilities to respond if …

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 …

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, …

The global oil demand is expected to plummet by 6.8 mln barrels per day (mb/d) in 2020, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) says in its April report. “For 2020, the world oil demand growth forecast is revised lower by 6.9 mb/d, to a historical drop of around …

Wall Street stocks mostly fell on Monday, April 13, ahead of major earnings reports, while the oil market gave a muted response to an historic deal by major producers to cut output. Two of the 3 major United States stock indices ended solidly lower ahead of Tuesday, April 14, when …

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 …