The market has tightened significantly following the economic recovery from the pandemic and supply disruption in the Gulf of Mexico due to Hurricane Ida
A OPEC+ ministerial panel has recommended that the oil producing group stick to an existing pact to hike oil output by 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) in November
OPEC and its allies meet on Monday to debate how much oil to release into red hot market, where supply disruptions and recovering demand from coronavirus pandemic have pushed oil above $80 per barrel.
Eighteen months after slashing crude production during the pandemic, Riyadh is set to pump at almost pre-Covid levels of 9.8 million barrels a day this month
The nearest month any increase could occur is November since OPEC+'s last meeting decided the October volumes
Opec meets almost 71% of India's crude oil requirements
OPEC says that more electric vehicles on the road and the push for alternative and renewable energy will indeed usher in an era of declining demand for oil in rich countries
Oil use will rise by 1.7 million barrels per day in 2023 to 101.6 million bpd, OPEC said its 2021 World Oil Outlook
The oil not pumped is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Iraq expects higher demand for crude as the shortfall of gas forces consumers to look for alternative fuels, Oil Minister Jabbar said
The latest data from the group indicate that the world will continue to face an oil supply deficit in the coming months even as its members revive idle production.
State producer Saudi Aramco is rolling back pricing on all of its grades to its biggest market in Asia.
Oil prices fell after OPEC+ agreed to keep its policy of gradually returning supply to the market at a time when coronavirus cases around the world are surging and many US refiners remained offline
Ministers ratified the 400,000 barrel-a-day supply hike scheduled for October after less than an hour of talks, one of the quickest meetings in recent memory
By Ahmad Ghaddar, Rania El Gamal and Alex Lawler
OPEC and its allies will likely stick to their existing policy of gradual oil output increases, four sources said on Wednesday, even though the group revised up its 2022 demand outlook
Two OPEC+ sources said the group's experts revised the 2022 oil demand growth forecast to 4.2 million barrels per day (bpd), up from the previous forecast of 3.28 million bpd.
OPEC+ expects the oil market to be in deficit at least until the end of 2021 and stocks to stay relatively low until May 2022, OPEC+ sources said
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were down 43 cents, or 0.6%, at $68.78.
The OPEC+ joint technical committee (JTC) expects the oil market to remain in a 0.9 million barrel per day (bpd) deficit this year, but hit a surplus of 2.5 million bpd in 2022