The OPEC + Group Puts an End to the OIL Price War Amid COVID-19 Crisis

The world’s oil production giants have agreed to a historic production cut, exhibiting nearly 10 percent of the supply across the globe, putting an end to the devastating oil price war between Saudi Arabia & Russia.

The collectively so-called OPEC+ consortium has decided on a 9.7 million barrel per day price cut after the 4 days of discussions as well as pressure from President Donald Trump, who had come for the defense of the battered oil shale industry. The deal is said to be effective by May 1, 2020. 

The oil which has always been a topic of the dispute has probably been dealt as of now with the OPEC+ deal, or in other words, the deal has ended the ongoing “Oil Price War.”

As a result WTI crude oil surged by almost 2.2 percent to $23.27 a barrel on the same day in New York. Moreover, oil futures climbed by more than 9 percent at the early sessions of trade on Sunday evening. However, the trend was seen reserving and oil trading 4 percent lower than its day highs that ended up making a choppy session. Additionally, Brent was seen rising approximately 0.9 percent to $31.78 a barrel.

This historic settlement marks the biggest oil-production cut until now amid coronavirus crisis, also the price cut is said to be more than four times by that of the previous financial crisis.

Furthermore, the deal states that the United States, Brazil as well as Canada will be contributing an added 3.7 million barrels over the document amid the production decline, whereas another group constituting of 20 nations has said to offer 1.3 million.

Besides, production cuts will continue for more than the initial two months period, slowly but surely. Then, by the end of June, it will be coming down to 7.7 million barrels a day and will become steady for the rest of the year. Further production cuts will be happening at the starting of 2021.

"The big Oil Deal with OPEC Plus is done," he said. "This will save hundreds of thousands of energy jobs in the United States," said Donald Trump in his tweet on 12th April.

He further adds, "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!"