In late June, OPEC members decided to increase their crude
oil output quotas further from 1 July.
Not exact matches
Political demonstrations in Venezuela, a major
oil producer, have led to fears of possible supply disruptions, while OPEC reduced official
output quotas by 1 million barrels per day from the beginning of April.
Iraq, which produced 4.47 million bpd in January, well above its
quota of 4.35 million bpd, is capable of raising its
output to 5 million bpd in the second half of this year, said Iraq's Minister of
Oil, Jabbar Ali Al - Luiebi.
Kuwait is sticking with plans to add half a million barrels a day of
oil - production capacity as it prepares for the eventual expiration of the
output quotas OPEC adopted to Continue Reading
For all their official production measurements, OPEC uses an average of estimates from six «secondary sources», namely the International Energy Agency (IEA), the
oil - pricing agencies Platts and Argus, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the
oil consultancy Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) and the industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, as an impartial adjudicator as to whether their
output quotas and production cuts are being met, to resolve any potential disputes that could arise if each member reported their own figures.