Just about anything to keep oil prices up, yeah?

  • Working to take preventive steps not to allow sharp fall in oil prices

The ironic part in all of this is that Saudi Arabia wants Russia to do more and step up efforts to curb production in the OPEC+ deal. But with the oil market already anticipating a deal, Saudi Arabia can't afford to let this slip now or otherwise face a backlash as prices will free fall if they can't reach an agreement.