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Explained | Why have key oil producers vowed output cuts?
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The Hindu
Sunday, April 9, 2023 12:46 AM GMT

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said the decision to cut crude oil production was aimed at supporting market stability.

The story so far: Major oil-producing countries including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, as well as Russia, have announced cuts in oil production that will start in May and last until the end of 2023. The announcement caused an instant uptick in prices of crude oil. On April 3, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), at its 48th meeting of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee, acknowledged the crude oil production cuts announced by major oil-producing countries. The OPEC+ countries include the 13 core members of OPEC and 10 other major oil producers. The new production cuts are in addition to those announced in October 2022.

According to OPEC’s official statement, the decision to cut crude oil production was aimed at supporting market stability. In February 2023, Russia announced it would cut crude oil production by half a million barrels a day after Western countries capped the price of its crude as a response to the war in Ukraine. Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that cutting production would help restoration of “market relations”, Reuters reported.

The G-7 bloc of advanced economies announced a price cap of $60 per barrel for Russian crude oil in December 2022. “The G7 and all EU Member States have taken a decision that will hit Russia’s revenues even harder and reduce its ability to wage war in Ukraine,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had said in a statement at the time. “It will also help us to stabilise global energy prices, benefitting countries across the world who are currently confronted with high oil prices,” she added.

Moreover, recent developments in the banking sector in the U.S. and Europe, including the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and the turmoil at Credit Suisse, have fuelled the possibility of an incoming recession. In March 2023, oil prices slipped 1% to a two-week low, on speculation of a recession and therefore a reduction in oil demand. Experts believe that cutting production will lead to increase in costs of crude oil in the international market. A sudden jump in both Brent crude and the U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude prices — both leading global oil benchmarks — was observed in the wake of the announcement of the decision to reduce production.

According to Reuters, the production cut is also a way of punishing short sellers who bet on oil prices declining.

As per the latest voluntary production adjustment, Saudi Arabia will be cutting 5,00,000 barrels a day; Iraq 2,11,000; United Arab Emirates 1,44,000; Kuwait 1,28,000; Kazakhstan 78,000; Algeria 48,000; Oman 40,000; and Gabon 8,000 barrels a day. These cuts are in addition to the two million barrels per day cut announced in October 2022. Russia had already announced a cut of 5,00,000 barrels a day, earlier this year.

The U.S. called OPEC’s decision “unadvisable”. “Our focus is going to remain on making sure that energy markets are able to support a growing economy and keep prices down for Americans as they head to the pump,” a White House official said during a press interaction.

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