{"id":125913,"date":"2022-03-09T19:41:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T19:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=125913"},"modified":"2022-03-09T19:41:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T19:41:18","slug":"western-allies-move-to-cut-russian-energy-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/western-allies-move-to-cut-russian-energy-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Western allies move to cut Russian energy imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>New York\/Abu Dhabi  (CNN Business)<\/cite>The oil market has been stretched incredibly thin, with few producers willing \u2014 or able \u2014  to replace Russian barrels banned by the United States and shunned by others. Enter the United Arab Emirates, which suggested it may be coming to the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE&#8217;s ambassador to Washington, Yousef Al Otaiba, told CNN Wednesday that the country wants to increase oil production and will encourage the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cartel to ramp up supply.<br \/>\nOtaiba&#8217;s comments sent oil prices dropping like a rock Wednesday. US oil fell 12% to $108 a barrel. Brent crude, the global benchmark, fell 13% to $112 a barrel.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>If the UAE convinces its partners to turn on the spigots, it would mark a turnaround for the cartel, which at its meeting last week with allied producers \u2014 a group known as OPEC+ \u2014 agreed to stick with a plan of gradually adding oil to the market, defying pressure from developed economies to do more to ease prices.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>A key problem for the Saudi-led group: Russia is one of those allied producers.<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, OPEC+ said in a statement that it would increase output by 400,000 barrels per day in April \u2014 a small fraction of Russia&#8217;s 10 million barrels per day crude oil production. The cartel had called the market &#8220;well-balanced,&#8221; despite oil prices having shot up 30% in the past two weeks.<br \/>\n&#8220;The UAE cracked. They were one of the last holdouts,&#8221; Robert Yawger, vice president of energy futures at Mizuho Securities, told CNN. &#8220;Now that they said it, you can expect the Saudis will say the same thing.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The world may be facing one of the largest energy shocks ever, Goldman Sachs says\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/220309100534-russian-oil-tanks-restricted-large-169.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe Biden administration banned imports of Russia&#8217;s crude and natural gas Tuesday, but Europe, which receives a great deal more Russian energy than the United States, has not. Still, sanctions on Russian banks and concerns about the ability to ship its oil have led to a shadow ban on the country&#8217;s energy industry, drastically reducing the amount of Russian oil supplied to the global market.<br \/>\nThe West has been hopeful it could add oil from other sources, including from OPEC members Iran and Venezuela.<br \/>\nBefore sanctions were applied on Iran, it produced about 4 million barrels per day. But the United States&#8217; return to a nuclear deal with the country has proven elusive. The United States has also begun discussions with Venezuela, whose crude was sanctioned in 2019. But the economically crippled South American country wasn&#8217;t producing much oil even before the ban.<br \/>\nOPEC, by contrast, has the ability to quickly ramp up supply as Saudi Arabia and the UAE have spare production capacity.<br \/>\n&#8220;We favor production increases and will be encouraging OPEC to consider higher production levels,&#8221; Otaiba said.<br \/>\nThe UAE Ministry of Energy has not released a statement, but Otaiba&#8217;s comments were subsequently tweeted by the country&#8217;s embassy in Washington. It marks the first hint that an OPEC nation may be willing to keep oil prices from rising out of control. Some economists fear that drivers, air travelers and businesses could start to change their purchasing behavior if oil rises much further, potentially damaging the global economy.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The UAE has been a reliable and responsible supplier of energy to global markets for more than 50 years,&#8221; Otaiba said, &#8220;and believes that stability in energy markets is critical to the global economy.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 CNN&#8217;s Matt Egan contributed to this report<\/em><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/09\/energy\/oil-uae-production-increase\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York\/Abu Dhabi (CNN Business)The oil market has been stretched incredibly thin, with few producers willing \u2014 or able \u2014 to replace Russian barrels banned [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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