Moscow’s decision to withdraw last week from a pact with Saudi Arabia to limit crude production, sparking an oil war that sent prices crashing 30 per cent on Monday, upending global markets.

Total global oil demand is now assumed at 99.73 mb/d in 2020, with 2H20 forecast to see higher consumption than 1H20. Considering the latest developments, downward risks currently outweigh any positive indicators and suggest further likely downward revisions in oil demand growth, should the current status persist.

Russia has long been seeking to capitalize on its OPEC ties with investment deals, which have been slow to materialize despite official state visits by Saudi King Salman to Moscow in 2017 and Russian President Vladimir Putin to Riyadh in October.

Al Mazrouei said, via a series of tweets, "OPEC and OPEC+ played an important role in delivering market stability. The UAE Ministry of Energy and Industry firmly believes that a new agreement is essential to support a balanced and less volatile market."

Saudi Aramco received a directive from the Ministry of Energy to increase its maximum sustainable capacity (MSC) from 12 million barrels per day (MMBD) to 13 MMBD.

UAE Minister of State and ADNOC Group CEO, Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber has commented on recent market developments, noting that the UAE oil company is set to supply the market with over four million barrels of oil per day in April 2020.

В 2019 году была подписана Хартия долгосрочного сотрудничества между государствами ОПЕК и не-ОПЕК.

The clash of oil titans Saudi Arabia and Russia sparked a 25% slump in crude prices on Monday, triggering panic selling on Wall Street and other equity markets that have already been badly hit by the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

Saudi Aramco announces that it will provide its customers with 12.3 million barrels per day (MMBD) of crude oil in April

On Friday, Russia refused to sign a deal with OPEC and its non-OPEC allies on additional production cuts for the rest of 2020 to counter the fall in demand caused by the spreading coronavirus outbreak.

Saudi Arabia has said it could raise production to 12 million barrels per day,

On Monday, Aramco shares opened trading at Riyals 27 ($7.19) before rising modestly to close at Riyals 28.35. That is 11.4% below its IPO price, prompting the company's valuation to slide to about $1.5 trillion from $1.7 trillion in December, in the wake of Friday's failure by OPEC and Russia to reach a deal on oil production cuts.

OPEC recommend extending the duration of the proposed 1.5 million barrel per day additional adjustment until the end of 2020, instead of 30th of June 2020.

With oil prices tumbling, OPEC now wants to deepen its production cuts with non-OPEC allies by 1.5 million b/d for the full year 2020, instead of just the second quarter, sources said Thursday.

“Conoravirus ... is a short-lived factor which is affecting oil prices ... There will be an OPEC (and non-OPEC) meeting, compensatory measures will be taken which will take the excess oil off the market and the oil price will rebound,” Fedun said.