In late 2016 OPEC engineered
significant oil production cuts in order to address an oversupplied oil market.
Not exact matches
Iran is looking to increase
production even more by the end of the year, so any supply
cut will have to be
significant to really impact
oil price.
The company also said
oil sands operations
production has benefited from reliable operations at its Firebag and MacKay River plants, but base plant operations dealt with a
significant, weather - related outage in January that will
cut first quarter output to roughly 400,000 bbls / d.
Saudi Arabia designed the low - price strategy aimed at making
oil production too costly for competitors in North America and Russia, and has refused to make more
significant output
cuts unless other producers agree to do the same.
OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) announced a surprise draft agreement to
cut oil production that boosted energy prices, but any
significant further rally would seem to us to require a far more vibrant global economy.