Iranian Minister of Petroleum, Bijan Zangeneh, said that Iran wants a quota system of production to be reinstated in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Gulf OPEC members including Saudi Arabia are looking to revive the idea of coordinated oil-output action by major producers on next meeting, a senior OPEC source said.
The Kuwait's Deputy Foreign Minister stressed the importance of reaching a consensus among oil producing countries and he said that "There is no choice but to freeze production".
Iran rejects again the call to freeze its oil output and emphasized that it will go ahead with its plans to increase its oil production to as high as 4m b/pd.
The head of the Oil Industry and Markets Division at the International Energy Agency (IEA) told CNBC that he believed both Russia and Saudi Arabia will continue to "pump as much oil as possible."
Crude oil prices jumped on 12th April and closed at 2016 highs after reports that Saudi Arabia and Russia have reached an agreement on an oil-production freeze.
Latin American oil producers, including main exporters such as Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico, asked to take the necessary steps to stabilize the global crude market in a bid to improve prices for the benef ...
Russia’s oil output set a post-Soviet high in March as the success of a proposed crude production freeze between OPEC members and other major producers appeared to be in doubt.
Ecuador is lobbying fellow Latin American oil exporters, Colombia and Mexico, to freeze crude production as part of a broad price-boosting effort that would be cemented at an April 17th meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC p ...
OPEC and non-OPEC producers - Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Venezuela - are expected to hold a meeting in the Qatari capital on April 17th to debate oil output freeze on the January 2016 levels. The meeting is a f ...