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  2. May 24, 2024 · Despite deep production cuts Brent crude prices are trading near their lowest this year at $81 a barrel, down from a peak of $91 in April, pressured by elevated stocks and concerns over global...

  3. Sep 2, 2024 · For the first seven months of the year, crude imports were 10.90 million bpd, down 2.9% from the 11.22 million bpd over the same period in 2023. This means that China's oil imports are about...

  4. Aug 1, 2023 · OPEC+ strategy remains a tightrope walk between supporting crude oil prices and maintaining group cohesion. While extending the current production cuts will affect oil revenues and hence fiscal balances, reversing them will push prices below breakeven levels.

  5. Jun 2, 2022 · The move to increase production faster than planned comes as rising crude prices have pushed gasoline to a record high in the U.S., a potential problem for U.S. President Joe Biden in...

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    • Demand Uncertainties
    • Looking to 2023 and Beyond
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    The August press release explicitly noted “the value and importance of maintaining consensus as essential to the cohesion of OPEC and participating non-OPEC oil-producing countries.” OPEC has been repeatedly stressing the goal of cohesionbecause it is essential to maintaining production levels or even cutting them, especially in the face of challen...

    In July 2022, the alliance’s actual production lagged behind its production target by 2.8 million b/d, higher than the shortfall in June despite the largest production increase since February 2022.Some member countries in Africa, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia have chronically underperformed, and many appear to be in structural decline. Neverthel...

    Looming over OPEC+ decision making, and the oil market in general, are the growing dark clouds of the global economy. In its most recent update, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) highlighted that “the outlook has darkened significantly since April. The world may soon be teetering on the edge of a global recession, only two years after the last ...

    OPEC+ member countries have benefitted from the high oil price environment. But amid significant macroeconomic headwinds that could derail demand growth, the alliance will need to remain united to maintain elevated price levels. Here, the relationship between Russia, the second largest producer among all the member countries, and the rest of OPEC+ ...

    Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, “31st OPEC and Non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting,” No. 23/2022, August 3, 2022, https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/press_room/6984.htm. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, “29th OPEC and Non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting,” No. 12/2022, June 2, 2022, https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/press_room/68...

  6. Apr 7, 2023 · The disintegration was visible again this week, when Riyadh and its Opec+ allies shocked the oil market by pledging to cut even more crude from supply — an effort to shore up oil prices...

  7. Jun 5, 2023 · Opec+ had to boost prices by cutting production dramatically - by more than nine million barrels per day. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the price of Brent crude soared to more than $130...