has rekindled speculation that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) may need to squeezeCause.movement.down.lossoutput for the first time in six years when it meets next month , some analysts are looking much further ahead .
Bob McNally , a White House adviser to former President George W. Bush and now president of the Rapidan Group energy consultancy , said after a recent trip to Saudi Arabia that OPEC producers might wait for U.S. supply disruptionsCause.movement.down.lossrather than squeezeCause.movement.down.losssupply themselves .
The two biggest Chinese refiners have said they will squeezeCause.movement.down.losstheir processing by about 940,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) as a result of the demand growth plungeMovement.down.loss, or about 2.1 percent of their 2019 processing runs .
However , this is expected to squeezeCause.movement.down.lossonly 2.5 million barrels per day ( bpd ) , or about 2 percent , off global oil consumption by that time .
While the collapseMovement.down.losshas rekindled speculation that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) may need to squeezeCause.movement.down.losssupply for the first time in six years when it meets next month , some analysts are looking much further ahead .
The the group last week announced an agreement to squeezeCause.movement.down.losssupply by 600,000 bpd that will effect from last week .
Not only will that squeezeCause.movement.down.lossbudgets from Caracas to Moscow , but U.S. drillers would probably curbCause.movement.down.lossactivity in the event of a `` sustained pullback '' below $ 80 a barrel , analysts at Baird Energy wrote in a report on Monday .
Crude prices crashedMovement.down.lossfurther on Friday after Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries once again said it will not squeezeCause.movement.down.lossoil production despite fears of a oversupplyOversupply, and a UAE official opposed holding an emergency meeting of the producer group to support prices .
While the dropMovement.down.losshas rekindled speculation that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) may need to squeezeCause.movement.down.lossoutput for the first time in six years when it meets next month , some analysts are looking much further ahead .