Saudi Arabia and OPEC+ Brace for Impact as Trump Plans New Oil Moves

In is exceptionally difficult to imagine Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his United Arab Emirates (UAE) counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan disdaining to take an urgent telephone call from President Donald Trump, as they did from President Joe Biden at the height on the energy crisis just after Russia had invaded Ukraine in 2022. However, at its 5 December meeting, selected members of the OPEC+ oil cartel decided to delay the rollback of 2.2 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil production cuts (supposedly being…