OPEC agrees to slowly increase oil production on Covid recovery bet
By Salma El Wardany, Javier Blas, Dina Khrennikova and Grant Smith on 4/1/2021
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak
(Bloomberg) --OPEC+ agreed to increase oil production gradually in the coming months, making a cautious bet on a summer economic rebound as the world recovers from Covid-19.
Defying market expectations for the second time in less than a month, the group agreed to add more than 2 million barrels a day to global oil supplies from May to July. That will return about a quarter of the crude they are still withholding after making deep cuts a year ago in response to the pandemic.