US should produce more to ease oil market tightness, says OPEC’s secretary general

As the world’s largest oil producer, the US bears some shared responsibility for easing the current supply squeeze, OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo said June 16, suggesting that the Biden Administration could be doing more to raise domestic output. “We are glad that their production is inching up, as well as their exports,” Barkindo told reporters in London, where he…