Oil flows freely from mid east reserves. If you read it correctly the agreement is to increase 50% over the planned increase.
Originally Posted by royamcr
Hahaha! Talk about a grossly and deliberately misleading announcement!
So you're saying if they were planning to increase output in July/August by 100,000 bpd, they will now increase it by 150,000 bpd instead. And that's supposed to be a Big Fucking Deal???
To put such a puny change into perspective, Joey's stupid decision last March to drain our Strategic Petroleum Reserve added 1 million bpd to global supplies and had virtually no impact on prices.
Saudi already has the capacity to do this as they are 3 million bpd short of pre pandemic production. Their record production is 12.4 They have been around 9 since trumps stupid "deal" with them to cut production.
Originally Posted by royamcr
Your numbers are way off. Saudi monthly production has only exceeded 11 million bpd for one fucking month - back in April 2020 when it was 11.6 million. Never hit 12.4 million. And they certainly don't have the capacity to add 3 million bpd overnight.
Moreover, what you call Trump's "stupid deal" likewise occurred back in April 2020, after futures prices for a barrel of crude briefly (and alarmingly) went negative. At the time, it would have been stupid NOT to ask the Saudis to pump less oil.
Here's the historical data for Saudi output by month, courtesy of the US Energy Department. Study it carefully!
https://www.eia.gov/opendata/v1/qb.p...STEO.COPR_SA.M