Oil producers are 'desperate to sell' as OPEC floods the market — short the energy sector
Oil-producing countries are flooding the market with more supply, and the CEO of one of the world's largest oil companies says Middle Eastern producers are 'desperate' to sell off their stockpiles. Prices are already falling — this could be the beginning of a larger crash.
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OPEC+ is preparing to approve another 188,000 barrels-per-day production increase, just as a US-Iran peace deal threatens to unleash even more supply. The CEO of TotalEnergies confirms that Middle East producers are 'desperate to sell' stockpiled oil from recent conflicts. This is a triple-whammy: OPEC quotas rising, Iranian supply potentially returning, and emergency stockpiles being dumped onto the market. When supply gluts form from three directions at once, energy stocks tend to fall hard and fast.