Russia withholds oil dataAnas Alhajji's take on Russia's decision to stop publishing oil and gas data, and what it means to the oil market:
https://afalhajji.substack.com/p/daily-energy-report-8d2?r=1vkr3y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web The Russian government has decided to stop publishing statistics on oil and gas output for a year, until April 2024, the Russian state news agency TASS reported.
The Federal Service for State Statistics (Rosstat) did not publish the monthly oil production data in its latest economic report which was published on Wednesday.
Russia is doing exactly what Iran did when its oil production and exports started declining. That means Moscow will not provide its production data to OPEC+, or the oil producers group will not publish the Russian data if it is provided.
This latest Russian decision means that the possibility of a decline in production and exports is now higher than before. Additionally, the quality of data on the global oil market will continue to deteriorate.