Reset Intelligence: 6 Million Barrels a Day.
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Reset Intelligence: 6 Million Barrels a Day.
By Reset Intelligence | @EXIT_FIAT
Iraq walked into OPEC's capacity audit this week and filed a formal demand: a production baseline of 6 million barrels per day.
And 66 years to the week after 5 oil states founded OPEC in Baghdad, the host just asked the cartel it created to move aside.
The demand at the cartel
The number is on the wire services. Iraq wants its OPEC+ baseline set at 6 million barrels per day, a third above its current quota of about 4.4 million and nearly double what it pumped last month. Attached to the request: a reconstruction bill Baghdad puts at $400 billion. The capacity review wraps this month, and the ministers ratify new quotas in November. Iraq hinted in June that it could leave the cartel if the answer disappoints, and everyone at that table remembers what the last unanswered quota grievance produced: the Emirates walked out on May 1.
The oil law actually moved - but not the way the rooms say
The dinar community spent yesterday declaring the oil and gas law passed. It has not passed. What actually happened is still significant: Iraq's ruling coalition reviewed an updated draft and finalized consensus terms before sending it to parliament, with a senior Kurdish delegation in Baghdad the same week. After 19 years and 4 dead drafts, the blocs have agreed to finally put the argument in front of the chamber. Nothing has been submitted yet and no reading is scheduled. The filing is the news. Passage is not.
The week in one block
2027 budget - the draft reaches the Council of Ministers September 15, Iraq's first complete fiscal plan since 2023
Cabinet - candidate files for the 9 empty seats due Saturday, parliament vote expected next week
Gold - Iraq added another tonne, reserve now 175.6 tonnes, about a quarter of everything it holds
The water - 8 Iranian tankers destroyed in a week, 18 of 20 missiles intercepted over Jordan, Brent settling above $100
Washington - Trump says the war ends immediately after the election; Treasury's opening upsized buyback ran at $6 billion
A country that had its price handed to it in 1960 just walked back into the same city and named its own scale. The paper that records what that scale is worth arrives September 15.
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