Bloomberg In the face of an unprecedented oil market collapse, Opec+ is responding with an urgency never seen before. With unusual speed, the alliance is launching an unparalleled program of production cutbacks this month to offset the slump induced by coronavirus pandemic. The 23-nation coalition is well on its way to cutting 9.7 million barrels of daily crude output — …

Bloomberg A fifth of global demand for oil will disappear this quarter. All three of the major forecasting agencies now agree that the world faces its biggest-ever slump in oil consumption, after governments imposed movement restrictions on billions of people to combat the coronavirus. The scale of the demand hit means that despite producers implementing unprecedented output cuts, stockpiles will …

Bloomberg Producers are already restarting oil wells in North Dakota as prices come off record lows, but talk of a recovery is premature, said the state’s energy regulator. The historic price rout has in recent weeks curbed output in the second-biggest producing state by a third to below 1 million barrels a day, according to the Department of Mineral Resources. …