The head of Russian oil company Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov, said that the firm has not received any directives from the Iraqi government in Baghdad to curb oil production for 2017.
Oman and Russia have been named to the committee set up by OPEC to oversee the implementation of oil production cuts agreed upon by OPEC and non-OPEC nations.
OPEC will be meeting non-OPEC countries in Vienna to finalize a global oil production cut agreement early December, while the group's oil output set another record high in November.
Crude oil prices steadied around $50 a barrel, holding onto big gains made after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia agreed to restrict production.
Nigeria got special concessions as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) reached the much sought consensus to cut oil production by 1.2m b/d, effective January 2017.
Iran's Oil Minister, Bijan Zanganeh, said that the country was prepared to leave its oil production at levels that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) had agreed at its September meeting in A ...
OPEC experts met late November, ahead of their schedule meeting in Vienna to discuss means to global market stability. Yet, they ended the meeting without agreeing on concrete details of a planned reduction in oil ou ...