Context

MENA tracks the social media accounts and RSS feeds of journalists and news agencies operating in and reporting on the Middle East and North Africa.

The OPEC narrative has been driven by 24 sources in the MENA Media module across 108 unique narratives in the last 30 days. The most active keywords associated with the OPEC narrative are oil production, saudi arabia, oil prices, and barrels per day.

Activity This chart shows the publication volume of narrative items by the sources in the module "MENA Media".

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• OPEC+ ministers are due to hold a virtual meeting at 1100 GMT on Feb. 1. The Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) can call for a full OPEC+ meeting if warranted. Five OPEC+ sources said last week that the JMMC would discuss the economic outlook and the scale of Chinese demand.
• OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al-Ghais said the group is seeing signs of green from China as travel and economic activity resume. He warned that economic slowdown and inflation in advanced economies are clouding the outlook. OPEC+ ministers will hold a monitoring meeting to assess market conditions on February 1.
• OPEC+ ministers scheduled to hold a virtual meeting on February 1, known as the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee. OPEC+ delegates told Reuters that the JMMC panel was highly likely to recommend maintaining the current oil output policy. However, there remains a factor of uncertainty when it comes to how supply will be impacted with the recent Western sanctions on Russias oil industry.

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