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.
A series of attacks on Nigeria's oil infrastructure has pushed its output of crude close to a 22-year low, Reuters data shows, putting intense pressure on the country's finances.
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".
Workers for one of the largest oil sands companies affected by a wildfire in northern Canada started to return to the shuttered facilities on May 12th. The gradual return of Canadian oil sands output dragged down oil ...
Russian Rosneft is set to lower oil output, Natural Resources Minister, Sergei Donskoi said, ahead of a meeting of leading global oil producers in Doha on April 17th to discuss an output freeze to support weak oil pr ...
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 ...
Russia's Energy Minister, Alexander Novak, said that Iran would consider joining a global deal to cap oil production only after it restores its oil output back to levels it enjoyed before international sanctions at 4 ...
Nigeria backed Saudi Arabia and Russia in freezing oil production while giving Iran and Iraq a way out to regain some of their market share lost due to sanctions and war.