Tag: Energy

Late in the evening of 12 April (outside of signing of this number in print), the energy Ministers of the OPEC countries+ will hold a new videoconferencia – apparently, for the final initialling of the text of the agreement on joint reduction in the production of "black gold". In Russia, many industry experts believe that, without this agreement, the domestic producers would have to cut the power in half. Now the barrel there is every chance that his price went back to the bar at $40, maybe even higher. So the cost of the "barrel" will help the domestic budget go a year without "holes" that need to be close from the reserve funds. However, for the oil industry, revenues from which fill about half of the Treasury, and the contract threatens to decline by 15%.

An emergency meeting of OPEC countries+ scheduled for April 9, which will be held in format of teleconference – the center of attention of market players all over the world. The stakes are high: either the States together fail to agree on the reduction of production volumes of "black gold", or the barrel will fall to record low levels, bringing the economies of producing countries, and so lying on the side of the pandemic, a new untold disaster. A lot depends on participation in the dialogue States that have not previously been aside from cutting production. According to preliminary data, the consent to capacity limitation gave Norway, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Mexico, and Canada and the United States. However, the participation of the two countries in remote negotiations are not officially confirmed.

OPEC members+ have agreed on a deal to reduce oil production. Its volume will be 10 million barrels per day. Another 5 million barrels per day promise to reduce the production of countries not participating in the agreement

Until the end of the pandemic COVID-19 for employees of the NPP introduced a special environment. Some time they will spend in isolation in the departmental dispensaries. "RG" visited one of these resorts

The main intrigue of the world petroleum negotiations is whether countries involved in the new deal OPEC+, to persuade Mexico to accept the General conditions – lasted less than a day. Initially, Mexico refused to cut production by 400 thousand barrels per day. The next day the figure changed to 350 thousand, and the country was agree that 250 thousand of them took over the United States. Now the final approval of the transaction is expected in the evening of 10 April. In the conference of energy Ministers of "big twenty".