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OPEC+ To Rollback All ‘Voluntary’ Oil Production Cuts In September 9%
By Gaurav Sharma12%
8/2/2026, 5:13:55 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Quote-first Misdirection, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 11.1% saturation with 43 hits. Analysis detected 268 faulty-reasoning hits from 388 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 19.8% and a BS Rank of 9% (24,889 of 27,226 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 91.40% of the article peer group.
Oil producers group OPEC+ announced a complete unwinding of its members’ “voluntary” production cuts with effect from September, following its latest meeting on Sunday.
The group, which includes a select group of Russia-led oil producers and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries spearheaded by Saudi Arabia, announced a production increase on Sunday of around 188,000 barrels per day that takes effect next month.
When the said output hike takes shape, it would complete the unwinding of a layer of voluntary output cuts.
The increase agreed by core OPEC+ members — Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan and Oman — concludes the phased rollback of a 1.65 million bpd supply cut originally agreed in 2023 by these producers.
At the time, the group included the United Arab Emirates as well.
It left OPEC+ and OPEC in May.
Even though the UAE’s departure has complicated the picture for the group, there has been little comment since on the development from OPEC+.
However, it expressed concern regarding attacks on energy infrastructure, noting that restoring damaged energy assets to full capacity is both costly and takes a long time, thereby affecting overall supply availability.
The JMMC stressed that "Any actions undermining energy supply security, whether through attacks on infrastructure or disruption of international maritime routes, increase market volatility and weaken the collective efforts to support market stability" for the benefit of producers, consumers, and the global economy.
Oil prices fell in June following the U.S.-Iran ceasefire to hostilities that began on February 28.
However, price spikes returned in July after Washington responded to Iranian attacks on shipping in the key maritime artery of the Strait of Hormuz.
Meanwhile, late last month Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels began disrupting shipping in the Bab El-Mandeb Strait that links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
The route is being used by Saudi Arabia to export oil via the Suez Canal north to Europe and down south to Asian markets as an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.
Both the global proxy benchmark Brent and U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate ended trading on Friday down by around 4% ahead of the OPEC+ meeting.
But both are also currently trending higher by around 18% compared to last month indicative of current crude market volatility.
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