‘Great day for all’ – Trump hails OPEC production cuts, thanks Putin and Saudi king
RT-USA News
Cheering on the “big oil deal” signed on Sunday, Trump sent his thanks and congratulations to “President Putin of Russia and King Salman of Saudi Arabia. I just spoke to them from the Oval Office. Great deal for all!”
The big Oil Deal with OPEC Plus is done. This will save hundreds of thousands of energy jobs in the United States. I would like to thank and congratulate President Putin of Russia and King Salman of Saudi Arabia. I just spoke to them from the Oval Office. Great deal for all!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2020
The deal, agreed upon by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting States and several other oil producers known as OPEC+, will see the signatories cut their collective output by 9.7 million barrels per day (bpd) for two months, in a bid to shore up the global energy market against the reduced demand created by the coronavirus pandemic.
The agreement also brings to an end a price war that had been raging between Russia and Saudi Arabia, after the latter pulled out of a previous agreement last month and ramped up production. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the Saudi kingdom of driving prices down to force competing shale oil producers, including the US and Russia, out of business.
A growth in shale oil extraction has seen the US become the world’s largest crude oil producer in recent years. However, American firms need an oil price of around $40 to turn a profit. With prices bottoming out at less than $20 at the beginning of April, Trump repeatedly pressed his Saudi Allies to cut a deal with Russia and limit production.
The fall in prices, however, presented Trump with a convenient opportunity to top up the US’ national oil reserves. As the market tumbled last month, Trump announced at a press conference that he had ordered US energy officials to buy the dip and “fill it right up to the top.”
The US is the world’s largest oil producer, but so far it hasn’t pledged any cuts in production, saying the fall in prices will trigger a scale-back by itself.
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