{"id":399607,"date":"2021-02-09T10:36:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T05:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=399607"},"modified":"2021-02-09T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T05:06:57","slug":"crude-oils-price-recovery-has-been-too-fast-for-opec-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oils-price-recovery-has-been-too-fast-for-opec-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil\u2019s price recovery has been too fast for OPEC+ unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OPEC+ alliance of oil producers will face a big test of its cohesion in a few weeks, when ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia meet to discuss the next step in their production deal aimed at rebalancing the world\u2019s oil supply with recovering demand. Things have almost moved too quickly in their favour.<\/p>\n<p>Recent increases in crude prices and the rapid drawing down of visible stockpiles will undoubtedly lead to calls for a more rapid raising of production targets than was envisaged in December. That may well reignite tensions between the co-leaders of the group, Saudi Arabia and Russia, with the potential for more brinkmanship that could undermine the price recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The report card was very good when the producer group\u2019s monitoring committee met last week to evaluate progress so far:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Aggregate compliance with the deal since it came into effect in May is at an unprecedented 99%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OPEC+ alliance of oil producers will face a big test of its cohesion in a few weeks, when ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia meet to discuss the next step in their production deal aimed at rebalancing the world\u2019s oil supply with recovering demand. Things have almost moved too quickly in their favour. Recent increases in crude prices and the rapid drawing down of visible stockpiles will undoubtedly lead to calls for a more rapid raising of production targets than was envisaged in December. That may well reignite tensions between the co-leaders of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}