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Home » OPEC May Need to Cut Again as Fragile Members Recover, Citi Says

OPEC May Need to Cut Again as Fragile Members Recover, Citi Says

A PUMP JACK IS NEAR AN OIL SPILL IN A SMALL, DUSTY FIELD SURROUNDED BY TREES.
El Tigre, Venezuela. Photo: Bloomberg
August 25, 2023
Bloomberg

OPEC’s core members may need to consider further production cuts as some of the group’s most troubled nations achieve unexpected supply growth, according to Citigroup Inc.

The “fragile five” of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria and Venezuela — which have struggled with output losses and disruptions for the past few years — will add roughly 900,000 barrels a day of production in 2023 and at least the same in 2024, the bank estimates. That’s enough to satisfy the coming growth in oil demand, it said.

“All of a sudden, they are sources of growth, and they will be sources of growth for five, four years — or maybe even longer in the case of Iraq and Venezuela,” Ed Morse, Citigroup’s head of commodities research, said in an interview. “It strikes us that the core OPEC+ countries have a problem on their hands.”

Read more: OPEC+ Reaffirms Strategy as Saudis Extend Unilateral Oil Cut

The five nations are all showing positive signs of supply recovery, while growth in oil demand will be constrained by fading expansion in China, Morse said.

Iranian output has recovered as it sends a flood of exports to China while engaging in tentative diplomacy with the U.S. Iraq may restore supplies when it reaches an agreement on a shuttered pipeline to Turkey and also adds capacity. Nigeria has improved security in its restive oil-rich delta, Venezuela is in talks with Washington on easing sanctions, and even Libya, long wracked by instability, has the potential for expansion.

As a result, OPEC leader Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies — which have slashed production this year to shore up crude prices — may face pressure to cut output further, Morse said. The kingdom has already curbed supplies to a two-year low near 9 million barrels a day.

“It’ll be a big problem,” Morse said. “I think they’ll have to cut, and I don’t know how easy it is for them to do that.”

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