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[Regnum] Saudi Arabia, against the backdrop of declining market demand, has decided to reduce oil prices for buyers in all regions, including Asia, Bloomberg writes on January 7.
The state-owned company Saudi Aramco has reduced prices for Arab Light oil for supplies to Asian countries by $1.5-2 per barrel. In addition, the company reduced prices for oil supplies in February for the countries of North-Western Europe, the Mediterranean and North America, the material says.
In February and March, there will be a decrease in oil consumption, and refineries will be closed during this period for scheduled maintenance, the authors noted. In addition, the decision to reduce prices was made against the background of the risk of a supply surplus due to an increase in oil supplies from the United States.
As Regnum reported, on November 30, OPEC+ countries reached a preliminary agreement on a new reduction in oil production by more than 1 million barrels per day.
On the same day, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak announced that Russia would deepen the voluntary reduction in oil supplies to a total volume of 500 thousand barrels per day and extend it until the end of the first quarter of 2024. According to him, Russia fully confirms its full commitment to the agreements on a voluntary additional reduction in the export of oil and petroleum products by 500 thousand barrels per day (300 thousand barrels of oil and 200 thousand barrels of petroleum products), starting in January 2024.
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