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Iraq Complies with OPEC Production Cut in January

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Iraq significantly reduced oil output in January, according to industry sources and export data on Wednesday, but has yet to reach levels expected by OPEC from its second largest producer.

A Reuters survey on Tuesday found Iraq lowered output by 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) compared with December – almost all the 210,000 bpd reduction it was supposed to make under the deal by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.



The finding that output fell at all was a surprise to some in the market. Baghdad’s initial request to be exempt from the OPEC agreement, plus loading programs pointing to continued high Iraqi exports, had led to scepticism it would cut.

But Iraqi officials have been stressing that reductions – both in production and exports – would be made.

“We’re not having any technical difficulties with this,” Iraq’s oil minister Jabar al-Luaibi told Reuters in an interview in London last week, referring to implementation of the cut.

via Reuters

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Alfonso Esparza

Alfonso Esparza

Senior Currency Analyst at Market Pulse
Alfonso Esparza specializes in macro forex strategies for North American and major currency pairs. Upon joining OANDA in 2007, Alfonso Esparza established the MarketPulseFX blog and he has since written extensively about central banks and global economic and political trends. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.
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