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OPEC Must Cut Production Costs to Compete With Shale Oil Producers - Nigeria

© AP Photo / Hasan JamaliIn response to the high cost of US shale, Saudi Arabia has been selling its massive stockpile of crude oil at rock-bottom prices.
In response to the high cost of US shale, Saudi Arabia has been selling its massive stockpile of crude oil at rock-bottom prices. - Sputnik International
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Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu stated that OPEC must lower production costs to compete with shale producers.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) must decrease oil production costs to ensure successful competition with shale oil producers, Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu said Wednesday.

"OPEC must lower production costs to compete with shale producers," Kachikwu told CNBC Africa in an interview.

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Kachikwu expressed confidence that OPEC deal would have positive influence on the stability of prices.

OPEC sealed a deal on November 30, 2016, agreeing to cut its oil output by 1.2 million barrels per day for the first six months of 2017 in an effort to stabilize the oil market and bring oil prices to the healthy range of $50-60 per barrel less than $30 per barrel in January 2016. The deal went into effect in January. Eleven non-OPEC countries, including Russia, Mexico and Kazakhstan, later joined the deal, pledging to reduce production by a total of 558,000 barrels per day on a voluntary basis.

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