Looks like OPEC is weighing in on the 2022 midterms, with a "historic" production cut a month before US voters go to the polls, a cut big enough to drive oil well above $100 a barrel.
An influential alliance of some of the world’s most powerful oil producers is reportedly considering their largest output cut since the start of the coronavirus pandemic this week, a historic move that energy analysts say could push oil prices back toward triple digits.
OPEC and non-OPEC producers, a group often referred to as OPEC+, will meet in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday to decide on the next phase of production policy.
The oil cartel and its allies are considering an output cut of more than a million barrels per day, according to OPEC+ sources who spoke to Reuters.
“The OPEC ministers are not going to come to Austria for the first time in two years to do nothing. So there’s going to be a cut of some historic kind,” Dan Pickering, CIO of Pickering Energy Partners, said, referring to the group’s first in-person meeting since 2020.
However, Pickering said he expects the actual number of barrels coming off the market will likely be around 500,000, which is “going to be enough to support the market in the near term.”
Oil prices rose around 4% on Monday morning.
International benchmark Brent crude futures popped 4% to $88.54 per barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures climbed 4.2% to trade at $82.83 per barrel.
The production cut could put gas prices well above $4 a gallon just in time for midterms, not to mention the price will drive global economies downward, including the US.
Seems like extortion to me, but there's not a lot President Biden can do about it.
You know, unless he wants to cut the Saudis loose completely.
We'll see, but this definitely seems like OPEC wants more Republicans.
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