The oil market has collapsed due to the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the inability of the OPEC+ alliance to agree on a production cut strategy at its last meeting March 5-6, when Russia rejected a Saudi-led proposal for deeper cuts.

OPEC has been open to counting natural production declines in its output cut agreements, but there is no indication the US would be willing to sign up to that, and some delegates say Russia might not agree such a dressed-up US cut anyway.

The government of Kuwait plans to increase its oil production in April 2020, with an objective of 3.15 mb/d, up from an average production 2.69 mb/d in 2019 (2.74 mb/d in 2018).

«Россия считает необходимым объединить эти усилия. Мы готовы к договоренностям с партнерами и в рамках механизма ОПЕК+, и к взаимодействию с США по этому вопросу. В результате необходимо сократить добычу, предварительно, на 10 млн баррелей в сутки. Это должно происходить по-партнерски. Все понимают, что речь может идти о сокращении от уровня добычи 1 квартала текущего года», - подчеркнул Президент.​

«На нефтяном рынке спрос также падает, на 10-15%. Мы надеемся, что в течение нескольких месяцев с постепенным увеличением экономической активности спрос все же будет нарастать», - сказал Александр Новак.

Мы при необходимости не исключаем и такой вариант развития событий. Если такое желание будет у стран, входящих в ОПЕК+ и стран, которые не входят, которые тоже сегодня проявляют активность, потому что попали в трудную ситуацию, — я этот вариант не исключаю.

The OPEC+ crude oil exporter group is debating cutting global supply by 10 million barrels per day

"It's impossible to take measures to reduce OPEC+ production by 20 million b/d, this is probably half of all countries' total production," Novak said

Russian energy minister Alexander Novak said a coordinated OPEC+ production cut would not be enough to compensate for the fall in demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic, which he said could reach 20 million b/d.

Urals crude, Russia’s export blend, is now trading firmly below $20 a barrel, a level which could equate to a budget deficit of 2% of gross domestic product this year,

Saudi Arabia is following through on its threat to flood the market, after Russia last month rejected a Saudi-led OPEC proposal for significant production cuts to backstop already sliding oil prices from the coronavirus pandemic's impact on the global economy.

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The MoU aims to facilitate the development of two Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plants – in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain – which, upon completion, would have the potential to transform up to 1.5 million tonnes of municipal waste into energy every year and collectively reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 2.5 million tonnes annually – equivalent to the removal of more than 500,000 cars from the road.

Iraq is selling around 70% of its crude exports to Asia,

Kuwait's nonoil growth strengthened to estimated 3 percent in 2019, propelled by government and consumer spending.