OPEC to Discuss Supply Cut Deal's Exit Plan Before June
Kuwait’s Oil Minister Essam al-Marzouq said on Sunday OPEC and other oil producers will study before June the possibility of an exit strategy from the global oil supply-cut agreement.
“There are still meetings every couple of months for the ministerial monitoring committee and there will be a study formed for the possibility of an exit strategy ... before June,” he told reporters.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and non-OPEC producers led by Russia have agreed to extend oil output cuts until the end of 2018, as they try to clear a global oil glut while signaling a possible early exit from the deal if the market overheats, Reuters reported.
OPEC meets next in June, while the next meeting for the ministerial monitoring committee, known as JMMC, is due to be held in January in Oman.
Russia, which this year reduced production significantly with OPEC for the first time, has been pushing for a clear message on how to exit the cuts so the market does not flip into a deficit too soon, prices do not rally too fast and rival US shale firms do not boost output further.
Moscow needs much lower oil prices to balance its budget than OPEC’s leader Saudi Arabia, which is preparing a stock market listing for national energy champion Aramco next year and would hence benefit from pricier crude.
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said last week that it was too early to talk about a possible exit from the global deal to cut oil production and the eventual withdrawal from the agreement should be gradual.
Novak said the process of exiting the deal may take between three and six months, depending on how the global oil market has recovered by then and on the scale of oil demand.
Under the current deal, the producers are cutting supply by about 1.8 million barrels per day.
source: Financial Tribune
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