The information was disclosed in the September monthly report of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), released this Tuesday in Vienna.
On the other hand, the group's analysts kept their estimates of oil demand made a month ago unchanged, based on a cautiously optimistic view of the world economy.
In the agreement concluded in late June with Russia and nine other independent producers in the OPEC+ alliance, which saw a global increase of 648,000 barrels per day, the organization's partners committed to pumping together 26,689 million barrels per day in August.
But the released data, based on estimates from several independent institutes, reveal the growing technical difficulties faced by most producing countries to increase supplies.
Particularly hard hit were Nigeria, whose extraction last month dropped by 65,000 barrels a day to 1.1 million barrels a day, when the quota allocated is 1.8 million barrels a day, and Angola (with a production of 1. 19 million barrels per day against a quota of 1.52 million barrels per day).
Despite this, OPEC as a whole managed to increase its oil supply by 618,000 barrels per day compared to July, thanks mainly to the 426,000 additional barrels per day supplied by Libya, a country that together with Venezuela (678,000 barrels) and Iran (2.57 million barrels per day) are exempt from the commitment to limit supplies.
In total, the thirteen partners produced 29.65 million barrels per day, a volume higher than the 28.9 million barrels per day that OPEC itself estimates to be the average level of demand required by this group, while rival supply would amount to 65.8 million barrels a day this year.
This latest figure is subject to a relatively favorable forecast for the Russian oil industry despite sanctions imposed by the West for invading Ukraine, which include a partial and progressive oil embargo.
Regarding global demand, OPEC kept its estimates from a month ago unchanged and forecasts an average consumption of 100.03 million barrels per day this year (3.2 percent more than in 2021) and 102.73 million barrels per day. per day in 2023.
