OPEC+ is likely to leave oil output levels unchanged at its meetings on Sunday and to agree on a mechanism to assess members’ maximum production capacity, two delegates from the group and a source familiar with OPEC+ talks told Reuters.

The eight OPEC+ countries which have been gradually raising output in 2025 are expected to keep their policy to pause hikes in the first quarter of 2026 unchanged, the two delegates said.

OPEC+, which groups the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies led by Russia, pumps about half the world’s oil and has been discussing for years production capacity figures against which members’ output targets are set.

The full OPEC+ group is expected to agree on the capacity mechanism in a separate meeting on Sunday, said the sources, who all spo

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