Energy

Trouble With OPEC Quotas

Yesterday’s report from Reuters that some OPEC member nations are cheating on their quota agreements is unique only in that the news agency has apparently got a document outlining what the cartel wants its members to do. Essentially, OPEC ministers want to cut crude production to the agreed-upon levels, taking nearly 2 million barrels/day out of the market.

If OPEC members were to comply with the quota, the big oil companies like Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), Chevron (NYSE:CVX) and ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) could not make up that many barrels.

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