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UAE: No Further OPEC Supply Cuts

UAE: No Further OPEC Supply Cuts
UAE: No Further OPEC Supply Cuts

There is no talk of further oil output cuts by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies despite only a slow drawdown in inventories, the United Arab Emirates' energy minister said on Thursday. "I think OPEC countries and non-OPEC producers who joined us have done their part. We are looking at the others to do their part as well. We are not worried about the market recovery," Suhail bin Mohammed al-Mazroui told journalists on the sidelines of a conference in Paris, Rigzone reported. OPEC and allied non-OPEC producers agreed on May 25 to extend an existing supply curb into 2018, but oil prices have fallen on rising production from the United States and from Nigeria and Libya, two OPEC members exempt from cutting output. "Of course additional production coming from several producers is prolonging the recovery but I think that is rather short-term. We hope to see more recovery in the third and fourth quarters. We are at the bottom of the second quarter and it is always a low-demand quarter," he said.

 

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