OPEC and Allies to Execute Deep Output Cuts, an Industrial Info Market Brief

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allied producers led by Russia, known as OPEC+, agreed to deepening output cuts by 500,000 barrels per day in the first quarter of 2020. The deal would also exclude condensates from the cuts for Russia.

While the United States still remains the world's top oil producer, OPEC+, notably its de facto head Saudi Arabia, hopes to see stable oil prices to support its budget and initial public offering of state-owned Saudi Aramco. The deal was signed by the OPEC Ministers in their recently concluded 177th OPEC Conference in Vienna, Austria, earlier this month.