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Whether OPEC+ formally agrees or not, deeper oil cuts now look inevitable

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With crude consumption collapsing, the OPEC+ is due to implement a deal to cut supply by a record 9.7 mbpd from 1 May LONDON: Whether or not OPEC+ oil producers formally agree to extra oil output curbs, rapidly filling storage capacity and plummeting demand due to the coronavirus crisis may force them to cut more.

With crude consumption collapsing, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Russia and other producers, a group known as OPEC+, is due to implement a deal to cut supply by a record 9.7 million barrels per day (bpd) from May 1.

But that unprecedented deal to withdraw about 10% of global supply already looks inadequate when demand has plunged by as much as 30% and the world is possibly just weeks away from running out

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