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Shocking UAE exit rocks OPEC, but group will still hold significant sway over the oil market

Cnbc · 🇷🇺 public Russia · · 1746 words · By Brian Sullivan
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Click here to subscribe.) POWER POINT What I'm hearing from energy insiders The ink was barely dry - so to speak - on this week's Power Point when the news blew harder than the oil well in the movie There Will Be Blood.

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The United Arab Emirates is leaving OPEC, and leaving now.

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Claim 1: “they were at 3.3 million before the war”
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Two different sources provide figures in this range: one mentions quotas limited production to 3-3.5 million barrels per day, and another states the UAE exported around 3.1 million barrels per day before the war.
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web search NEUTRAL — Put simply, the UAE wanted to use the considerable capacity it has invested in. Opec quotas limited its production to 3-3.5 million barrels per day. Opec membership sacrifices, in terms of lost revenu…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4pxyklw1jo
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web search NEUTRAL — Before the war in the Middle East, the UAE exported around 3.1 million barrels per day.
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/uae-secretly-transporting-oi…
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web search NEUTRAL — The UAE’s production costs, often estimated below $10 per barrel in core fields, allow it to remain profitable even in lower price environments.
https://russiaspivottoasia.com/russias-strategic-position-as…
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Claim 2: “Bank of America says it has "a base case" of a permanent end to hostilities - where oil flows mostly normalize by 3Q26, and Brent crude oil averages $92.50/bbl this year”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding Bank of America's specific base case price of $92.50/bbl or the Q3 2026 normalization timeline.
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Claim 3: “the May 1st exit not even here”
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Multiple news sources (Flipboard, NY Post) explicitly state that the UAE's departure from OPEC is effective May 1.
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web search NEUTRAL — Following Britain's military departure from the UAE in 1971, and its establishment as a new state, the UAE laid claim to Iranian-occupied islands of Abu Musa and the Greater and the Lesser Tunbs, when…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates
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web search NEUTRAL — ‘Make it in the Emirates’ is the unified industrial brand identity to encourage manufacturing and production in the UAE. Local and international investors are invited to contribute to the development …
https://u.ae/en
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 13, 2023 · The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a federation located in the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula, comprises seven distinct emirates. Each emirate maintains considerable autonomy, while…
https://www.worldatlas.com/maps/united-arab-emirates
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Claim 4: “Iran's economy entering a "death spiral" as oil exports dry up”
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Claim 5: “without those UAE barrels, OPEC's global market share will fall below 30% for the first time ever”
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While multiple sources discuss the 'big deal' and 'geopolitical rupture' of the UAE's exit, the specific statistical claim that market share will fall 'below 30% for the first time ever' is not explicitly corroborated by multiple independent data sources in the provided evidence.
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web search NEUTRAL — The UAE's Opec exit could spark further dominoes falling here, and there will be considerable pressure now on Saudi Arabia. When the tankers flow through the Strait again, or if the UAE redoubles its …
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4pxyklw1jo
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web search NEUTRAL — UAE exit from OPEC leaves African oil producers vulnerable.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — The UAE’s OPEC exit marks a geopolitical and energy rupture, accelerating a fragmented post-cartel oil order.
https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/op-ed/uae-withdrawal-from…
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Claim 6: “the group accounted for over 50% of the world's production in the 1970s”
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Wikipedia and the Oman Observer both confirm that in the early 1970s, OPEC's membership accounted for more than half (50%) of worldwide oil production.
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web search NEUTRAL — Opec is the organisation of mainly Gulf oil exporters, which for many decades controlled the price of crude oil by decreasing or increasing production and allocating quotas across its membership. It h…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4pxyklw1jo
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web search NEUTRAL — early 1970s, OPEC's membership accounted for more than half of worldwide oil production.[54]. In 2006, indicating that OPEC is not averse to further expansion, Mohammed Barkindo, OPEC's acting secreta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC
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web search NEUTRAL — OPEC countries supplied more than a quarter of the world’s oil before the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began on Feb.“If we look at the 1970s, that was the peak of OPEC market power because in the 1970s,…
https://www.omanobserver.om/article/1188750/business/markets…
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Claim 7: “Forty years ago, the Chernobyl disaster changed how the world viewed nuclear energy.”
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Claim 8: “Shell makes a $16 billion dollar bet on Canadian oil and gas”
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Claim 9: “OPEC and its OPEC "plus" coalition, a group led by Russia and held together by what's called the group's Declaration of Cooperation, adhere - mostly - to an output quota system”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny the specific details regarding the 'Declaration of Cooperation' or the leadership role of Russia in the quota system.
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Claim 10: “The JPMorgan team, led by Natasha Kaneva... note that nearly all the world's spare capacity is concentrated in Saudi Arabia and the UAE”
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Claim 11: “The United Arab Emirates is leaving OPEC, and leaving now.”
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Multiple independent news sources (Al Jazeera, The Conversation, Flipboard, NY Post) all report that the UAE announced its departure from OPEC.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — the United Arab Emirates announced it was leaving OPEC
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/the-take-2/2026/5/5/aje-onl-…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — the announcement by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that it was quitting Opec
https://theconversation.com/war-in-the-gulf-and-on-us-free-s…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday it will leave OPEC effective May 1, stripping the oil cartel of its third-largest producer and further weakening its leverage over global oil supplies and prices.
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/appeals-court-rules-against…
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Claim 12: “The UAE may only be the 3rd largest producer in OPEC - and 8th largest in the world”
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The claim states the UAE is the 3rd largest producer in OPEC and 8th globally. However, web search results provide conflicting data: one source lists the UAE as the 7th largest oil producer globally, while another mentions Iran as the 3rd largest in reserves (not production).
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web search NEUTRAL — Oil-exporting countries were eventually motivated to form OPEC as a counterweight to this concentration of political and economic power.[42].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC
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web search NEUTRAL — United Arab Emirates. Seventh largest oil producer, the UAE extracts about 4,020,000 BPD.Iran has the third largest oil reserves of 208,600 million barrels and is also the twelfth largest consumer of …
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/oil-produ…
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web search NEUTRAL — Top oil production by country. Bar chart shows global oil production in 2024, with the United States leading at 22,844 million barrels per day. Read on for a look at the 10 top oil producing countries…
https://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/energy-in…
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Claim 13: “Bob McNally... is the author of the excellent book "Crude Volatility"”
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Claim 14: “Goldman Sachs... upgraded its 2026Q4 Brent/WTI forecasts to $90 and $83 (vs. previous forecasts of $80 and $75)”
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Claim 15: “OPEC is just a company with a pretty boring headquarters building in downtown Vienna, Austria.”
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It is a widely known and verifiable fact that OPEC is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, which is supported by the general context of the provided search results regarding the organization's structure.
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 28, 2026 · What are OPEC and OPEC +, and why has the UAE quit? The Gulf state is the latest to quit the group, which was created to form a united front on oil pricing.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/28/what-are-opec-and-o…
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web search NEUTRAL — OPEC Conference delegates at Swissotel, Quito, Ecuador, December 2010 The OPEC Conference is the supreme authority of the organisation, and consists of delegations normally headed by the oil ministers…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC
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web search NEUTRAL — The OPEC Secretariat produces numerous publications to inform the public about the Organization's activities, and to disseminate data and information about OPEC Member Countries and the oil industry i…
https://www.opec.org/
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Claim 16: “OPEC itself will control about 28% of the global market. The OPEC+ group adds another 14%, giving the OPEC alliance about 42%. Non-OPEC and the U.S. will control the other 58%.”
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The specific breakdown of market shares (OPEC 28%, OPEC+ 14%, Non-OPEC/US 58%) is reported by CNBC and referenced in the context of the UAE's exit.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC / ˈoʊpɛk / OH-pek) is an intergovernmental cartel enabling the co-operation of leading oil-producing and oil-dependent countries in order to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC
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web search NEUTRAL — OPEC itself will control about 28% of the global market. The OPEC+ group adds another 14%, giving the OPEC alliance about 42%. Non-OPEC and the U.S. will control the other 58%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/shocking-uae-exit-rocks-opec…
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web search NEUTRAL — The UAE's shock exit announcement on April 28, 2026 adds a fresh layer of complexity: a country producing over 3.36 million b/d walking out the door mid-year is not a footnote — it rewrites the coalit…
https://www.theglobalstatistics.com/opec-plus-statistics-and…
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Claim 17: “Texas oil output up even as the number of new oil drilling rigs decline”
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