OPEC Unshackled From Quota Could Add Millions of Barrels - Bloomberg Business

OPEC Unshackled From Quota Could Add Millions of Barrels - Bloomberg Business:

"OPEC’s new free-for-all production stance could lift the lid on millions of barrels of additional crude supply next year.
“Everyone does whatever they want” now that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has effectively abandoned its formal production target, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said after the group met on Friday. What Iran wants is to revive exports by about 1 million barrels a day when sanctions are removed next year. It’s not the only member with potential to swell the global oil surplus, with millions of barrels of capacity lying unused under the sands of Saudi Arabia and Libya.
“It means more OPEC oil next year,” Jamie Webster, a Washington-based oil analyst for IHS Inc., said of the organization’s Dec. 4 decision. “OPEC is not cutting. With Iran looming, as well as largely only upside risk for Libya, the smart money is on more, and not less, production.”"



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