IEA’s Birol calls on OPEC+ to narrow supply gap, markets to be freed from geopolitics

High energy prices are jeopardizing the world’s pandemic recovery, the International Energy Agency’s executive director said Feb. 16, calling on OPEC and its allies to hit their oil production targets and for countries not to wield energy as a geopolitical weapon. “Today, very high oil and gas prices are putting a huge burden on economies,” Fatih Birol said at a…