{"id":438731,"date":"2021-09-28T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T05:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438731"},"modified":"2021-09-28T11:49:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T06:19:41","slug":"as-opec-reopens-the-taps-african-giants-losing-race-to-pump-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-opec-reopens-the-taps-african-giants-losing-race-to-pump-more\/","title":{"rendered":"As OPEC reopens the taps, African giants losing race to pump more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top African oil exporters Nigeria and Angola will struggle to boost output to their OPEC quota levels until at least next year as underinvestment and nagging maintenance problems continue to hobble output, sources at their respective oil firms warn.<\/p>\n<p>Their battle mirrors that of several other members of the OPEC+ group who curbed production in the past year to support prices when COVID-19 hit demand, but are now failing to ramp up output https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/opec-compliance-with-oil-cuts-rises-116-august-sources-say-2021-09-21 to meet soaring global fuel needs as economies recover. <\/p>\n<p>The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) agreed in July to add 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) to production from August until December 2021, slowly phasing out the unprecedented supply cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top African oil exporters Nigeria and Angola will struggle to boost output to their OPEC quota levels until at least next year as underinvestment and nagging maintenance problems continue to hobble output, sources at their respective oil firms warn. Their battle mirrors that of several other members of the OPEC+ group who curbed production in the past year to support prices when COVID-19 hit demand, but are now failing to ramp up output https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/opec-compliance-with-oil-cuts-rises-116-august-sources-say-2021-09-21 to meet soaring global fuel needs as economies recover. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) agreed in July to add 400,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438731","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}