OPEC Update, June 2021

The OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report for July 2021 was published this past week. The last month reported in each of the charts that follow is June 2021 and output reported for OPEC nations is crude oil output in thousands of barrels per day (kb/d). In the charts that follow the blue line with markers is monthly average output and the red line without markers is the centered twelve month average (CTMA) output. 

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OPEC January Production Data

All OPEC data below is from the February edition of the OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report. The data thousand barrels per day and is through January 2020. OPEC Monthly Oil Marker Report

OPEC 14 crude oil production was down 509,000 barrels per day in January. And that was after December production was revised down 86,000 barrels per day.

OPEC announced a couple of months ago that Ecuador was leaving the cartel. However they were still included in January’s data. I have no idea what’s going on.

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