欧佩克第二大成员国表示将遵守减产协议

据今日油价网站报道，作为欧佩克第二大产油国的伊拉克，也是该组织自2017年开始实行减产以来最不听话的成员国，如今它终于开始履行义务了。

熟悉情况的消息人士周二对彭博社表示，伊拉克国家石油销售组织已询问部分购买伊拉克巴士拉原油的亚洲买家，是否可以放弃本月和下月的部分合约货物。

伊拉克要求买家在这几个月放弃部分货物的要求表明，这一次，伊拉克可能会认真地尝试在欧佩克+减产中合作。

伊拉克(以及尼日利亚)5月未能完全遵守欧佩克+减产协议的举动，几乎让上周的减产延长讨论会议毁于一旦。

欧佩克+周六同意延长减产到7月底。

在会议前，伊拉克副总理兼代理石油部长阿里·阿拉维表示，他的国家将进一步减少石油产量，因为它仍然会遵守OPEC+协议。

在欧佩克会议结束后的视频新闻发布会上，沙特能源部长阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹·本·萨勒曼王子周一强调称，“我们没有任何不一致的余地。”

欧佩克在周二的新闻发布会上表示，今天，伊拉克新任石油部长伊赫桑?阿卜杜勒?贾巴尔?伊斯梅尔在与沙特石油部长通电话时证实，“伊拉克将承诺完全减产。尽管面临经济和金融挑战，伊拉克仍将在2020年6月和7月自愿进行石油产量调整，以及7月底之后的自愿调整。”

詹晓晶 编译自 今日油价网站

原文如下：

Is OPEC’s No.2 Finally Complying With Output Cuts?

OPEC’s second-largest producer, Iraq, which also happens to be the least compliant member of OPEC+ since the group started managing supply to the market in 2017, may have finally started taking its obligations seriously.

Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) has asked some of the Asian buyers of its Basrah crude grades if they could give up delivery of some already contracted cargoes for loading this month and next, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News on Tuesday.

The request for buyers to forgo some cargoes for those months suggests that this time, Iraq may be earnest in its attempt to play ball in the OPEC+ production cuts, after being the biggest cheater in all previous pacts.

Iraq’s (as well as Nigeria’s) non-compliance with the record OPEC+ cuts in May nearly wrecked last week’s meeting of the pact, ahead of which the two leaders of the group, Saudi Arabia and Russia, had insisted that there would be an extension by one month to the current level of cuts only if laggards in compliance ensured over-compliance going forward to compensate for flouting their quotas so far.

OPEC+ agreed on Saturday to extend the record production cuts of 9.7 million bpd by one month through the end of July, contingent on all countries in the pact complying 100 percent with their quotas and compensating for lack of compliance by overachieving in the cuts in July, August, and September.

Before the meeting, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and then-acting Oil Minister, Ali Allawi, vowed that his country would further reduce production as it remains committed to the OPEC+ pact.

At the video news conference following the OPEC+ meeting, Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, emphatically said on Monday that “We have no room whatsoever for lack of conformity.”

Today, Iraq’s new Oil Minister, Ihsan Abdul Jabbar Ismaael, confirmed in a phone call with his Saudi counterpart Iraq’s “full commitment” to the cuts, OPEC said in a press release on Tuesday. Iraq confirms “its commitment to the voluntary oil production adjustments of June and July 2020, as well as the voluntary adjustments for the period following the end of July, despite the economic and financial challenges,” Ismaael told the Saudi energy minister.