The OPEC+ had failed to agree to increase production quotas from August onward after the UAE objected to Saudi Arabia's plan to tie the production increases to a lengthening of the supply management pact through to the end of 2022.

“The 18th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting has been called off,” OPEC Secretary General, HE Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, said in a letter to Heads of Delegation of OPEC Member Countries and non-OPEC oil producing countries participating in the Declaration of Cooperation (DoC).

The Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure has affirmed that the UAE is a longstanding and committed member of OPEC, and OPEC+, and have been a reliable partner in the current OPEC+ agreement, delivering compliance of 103% throughout its 2-year term.

If agreed, the OPEC+ alliance's collective production cuts would shrink by about one-third by the end of the year to about 3.76 million b/d, from July's 5.76 million b/d.

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The annual E-FUSION (Emirati French Industrial Supply Chain Initiative for Nuclear) event was launched by ENEC, EDF and GIFEN (French Nuclear Cluster) in 2019, aiming to develop new Franco-Emirati commercial relations in the nuclear sector.

In 2019, Reliance announced the sale of a 20% stake to Saudi Aramco, the world's top oil exporting company.

Under the terms of a strategic agreement, Reliance and TA'ZIZ will build plants with capacity to produce 940,000 mt/year of chlor-alkali, 1.1 million mt/year of ethylene dichloride and 360,000 mt/year of polyvinyl chloride at the TA'ZIZ Industrial Chemicals Zone, ADNOC said in a June 29 statement.

Aramco and ADNOC are likely to use their connections to woo investments to their hydrogen and ammonia projects.

With OPEC and its allies planning to roll back production quotas over the next few months in anticipation of greater global demand for crude oil, Iraq's quota will rise to 4.016 million b/d in July, having been at 3.954 million b/d in June and 3.905 million b/d in May.

Aramco and an international investor consortium, including EIG and Mubadala, today announced the successful closing of the share sale and purchase agreement, in which the consortium has acquired a 49% stake in Aramco Oil Pipelines Company, a subsidiary of Aramco, for $12.4 billion.

Aramco President & CEO, Amin H. Nasser, said: “We are very pleased with the global investment community’s response to Aramco’s first international dollar Sukuk, which attracted demand 20 times the initial targeted issuance size.

Russian company Technopromexport pledged to invest €12bn (US$14.6bn) in the project.

Despite the production gains, the looser quotas meant OPEC+ compliance stayed mostly steady at 111.45% compared to 111.16% in April,

A new “Hydrogen Alliance” was launched by the UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure and three of Abu Dhabi’s largest government-backed companies (Mubadala Investment Company, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, and ADQ) in January 2021