An OPEC+ deal to release more oil to the market and extend its supply management policy to the end of 2022 hinges on agreement from the UAE, which effectively blocked a deal agreed by top producers Saudi Arabia and Russia to ease oil cuts by 2 million bpd by the end of 2021 and extend the remaining cuts to December 2022 from April 2022. The UAE is arguing that the new deal needs to acknowledge that the UAE has higher production from which cuts are being made.
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