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Russia to attend OPEC meeting in Istanbul next week: Del Pino
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Talks to include how non-OPEC countries join deal: Del Pino
OPEC members will meet next week for talks on implementing an output cut deal, with Russia joining to discuss how producers from outside the group can participate in the plan, according to Venezuela’s oil minister.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Meanwhile Nigeria has also said it won’t have to comply and Libya is unlikely to be asked to because its oil production is a fraction of what it should be. The deal will be finalized when the group meets at the end of next month in Vienna.
According to Petroleum Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, Nigeria is not ready to cut its crude production levels from the current 1.7-million barrels a day,
He also said that he doesn’t expect that the oil output freeze will have a significant impact on the energy market. “[Nigeria’s current oil production is] 1.7 million barrels. Right now we need help not cuts,” the minister told reporters.
Ministers from OPEC members Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Gabon, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will attend a meeting in Istanbul, along with Alexander Novak from non-OPEC member Russia, Eulogio Del Pino said in a government statement late Wednesday.
Del Pino said in a statement a day earlier that an agreement among OPEC and non-OPEC states to limit oil production could slash global supply by 1.2 million barrels a day and add as much as $15 a barrel to prices.
Most of the oil ministers are scheduled to attend the 23rd World Energy Congress Oct. 9-13 in Istanbul. Algerian Energy Minister Noureddine Boutarfa said in an interview with Ennahar TV that they were planning to meet next week, Reuters reported earlier Wednesday. The Ennahar report is scheduled for broadcast Thursday, Reuters said.
Separately on Wednesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on state television that he plans to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for bilateral talks “very soon,” without saying where that would take place.