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November 29: For the first time in four years, OPEC agrees to an increase in its production ceiling. OPEC has raised the ceiling to 27.5 million barrels per day (4,370,000 m 3 /d) for the first half of 1998, effective January 1, 1998. The new ceiling represents a 10 percent increase over the current ceiling.
September 22: OPEC, at a meeting of its member states' oil ministers, decides to maintain current production cuts until March 2000, despite the fact the crude oil prices have doubled since early 1999. In another development, OPEC announces that its current Secretary General, Nigerian Rilwanu Lukman, will stay in office until March 2000. The ...
OPEC has cut its forecast for 2025 demand growth to 1.54 million barrels per day, from 1.85 million barrels per day in July. That is at the high end of estimates compared to those from the ...
"Petrocurrency" or (more commonly) "petrodollars" are popular shorthand for revenues from petroleum exports, mainly from the OPEC members plus Russia and Norway.Especially during periods of historically expensive oil, the associated financial flows can reach a scale of hundreds of billions of US dollar-equivalents per year – including a wide range of transactions in a variety of currencies ...
According to their peer-reviewed report, oil production in 2030 would not exceed 75 million barrels per day (11.9 × 10 ^ 6 m 3 /d) while the IEA forecasts a production of 105 million barrels per day (16.7 × 10 ^ 6 m 3 /d). The lead author of the report, Kjell Aleklett, has claimed that IEA's reports are "political documents". [87]
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Subsequent reports from 2022 indicate that OPEC member countries were then responsible for about 38% of total world crude oil production. [3] It is also estimated that these countries hold 79.5% of the globe's proven oil reserves, with the Middle East alone accounting for 67.2% of OPEC's reserves. [184] [185]
The OPEC Reference Basket (ORB), also referred to as the OPEC Basket, is a weighted average of prices for petroleum blends produced by OPEC members. It is used as an important benchmark for crude oil prices. OPEC has often attempted to keep the price of the OPEC Basket between upper and lower limits, by increasing and decreasing production.