In comments on Monday, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh set a condition for a possible change in the time of the OPEC meeting.
Zanganeh said he disagrees with a proposal to reschedule the OPEC’s next meeting to early July, but Tehran would be ready for a meeting on July 10-12 if there is a tendency to change the date.
OPEC was scheduled to meet on June 25, but Russia, a producer outside OPEC, suggested moving the meeting to July 3-4.
In letters to OPEC, Algeria and Kazakhstan have disagreed with moving the dates. Sources say Venezuela and Libya additionally opposed a schedule change.
“It is becoming really embarrassing,” Reuters quoted an OPEC source as saying.
OPEC and its allies, a grouping known as OPEC+, agreed in December 2018 to reduce supply by 1.2 million barrels per day from January 1. OPEC’s share of the cut is 800,000 bpd, to be delivered by 11 members -all except Iran, Libya and Venezuela.
