Global oil market stability is impossible without the cooperation of Russia and Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude producers, the kingdom’s influential deputy crown prince said after speaking with Vladimir Putin ahead of an OPEC meeting later this month.
Saudi Arabia hopes to work with Russia for oil market stability, Mohammed bin Salman said after meeting with the Russian president in Hangzhou, China, Sunday. World leaders are gathering in China this week for a summit of Group of 20 nations. Russia and Saudi Arabia will meet with other producers in Algeria later this month to discuss oil markets.
Crude has gained about 6 percent since the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said last month it will hold informal talks on oil prices and supply during a meeting of the International Energy Forum in Algiers. Producers have been discussing proposals to limit output and prop up crude after a glut cut prices by more than half from their 2014 peak.
Talks in April about a Saudi-Russian proposal to freeze output ended without an agreement in Doha, Qatar, after Iran, the group’s third-largest producer, declined to attend the meeting and Saudi Arabia balked at any accord that didn’t include all OPEC members. Putin said Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg that he’d like OPEC and Russia, producers of half of the world’s oil, to reach a deal to freeze supply and he expects the differences over Iran’s participation can be resolved.


Cloggie on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 7:21 am
Isolated Russia latest. KSA, Iran and Turkey lining up in the Kremlin to apply for best friend status.
Doesn’t Putin know that the Middle East belongs to the West?
rockman on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 7:45 am
So far they seem to be cooperating well enough: the oil market has been relatively stable for more than a year. Rather surprising given the various military confrontations in the ME.
Davy on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 8:48 am
Let Putin have the mid-east. The ME is a hornet’s nest of mission creep and an economic tar baby of commitments. The best thing for the world and the US is for the US to disengage. This disengagement does not need to be total but gradual and definitive. The definite is moving out actual military assets and engaging in substantive negotiations. This may happen with Trump surely not Hillary.
Albert W. L. Moore, Jr. on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 8:59 am
Good luck.
Boat on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 11:12 am
Davy,
You didn’t know trump vowed to rebuild a weakened US military and kill every terrorist? He doesn’t think spending 600 billion per year is enough.
Boat on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 11:26 am
Davy on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 8:48 am
“Let Putin have the mid-east. The ME is a hornet’s nest of mission creep and an economic tar baby of commitments.”
If the US disengaged in the Middle East it would result in more chaos. What the Middle East needs is more involvement by world powers that use the oil. China, Japan, India etc.
Anonymous on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 10:19 pm
Yea, boat, if all those powers, Russia, China etc, replaced the amero-zionist ‘western’ war and destabilization machine in the Middle East, chaos would indeed drop to almost nothing. Once the arabs settled their business of where the borders are, and who was in charge, the Russians and Chinese would offer trade and economic development deals, not weapons or training secret police to murder opposition. Wouldn’t happen overnight of course. The uS and it yid friends have placed lots of trouble-makers in high, and low places, and have spent a century planting booby traps all over the region. Take a while for them to get tired, overthrown, get killed, or simply emigrate to the south of France, the uS or the uK where they could take up lucrative careers ‘advising’ the CIA or MI6.
Dredd on Tue, 6th Sep 2016 2:49 pm
“Stable Oil Market Needs …”
It’s main need is bad science now (Questionable “Scientific” Papers – 10).