Russia announced, on Thursday, that it will cut oil exports by 300,000 barrels per day in September.
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that within the efforts to ensure the oil market remains balanced, Russia will continue to voluntarily reduce its oil supply in the month of September, now by 300,000 barrels per day.
Russia has already pledged to reduce its oil output by around 500,000 barrels per day, from March until year-end.
Russia is the world’s second-largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia, which also in turn announced that it would extend a voluntary cut in oil output of one million barrels per day for another month to include September.
Oil prices have risen significantly since Russia and Saudi Arabia announced supply cuts in early July, with Brent crude oil, a global benchmark for their main export, climbing from around USD 76 a barrel to above USD 83 currently.
Source: Qatar News Agency
