OPEC warned on Monday that the “immense challenges” attributable to the Covid-19 pandemic have been prone to persist into 2021, because the group of oil producers continues high-stakes negotiations over an extension to its manufacturing lower settlement.

“The shock to the oil trade is very large and its extreme impacts will seemingly reverberate within the years to come back,” Abdelmadjid Attar, OPEC president and Algeria’s power minister, advised the group on Monday.  

“The pandemic continues to rage with circumstances hovering in lots of areas world wide. It continues to have an effect on adversely the worldwide economic system and, consequently, the world power markets, in an unprecedented method.”

Reuters, citing Algeria’s state information company APS, reported that OPEC members had reached a consensus to increase the manufacturing curbs for 3 months, however additional talks have been wanted to persuade members of the OPEC+ alliance at their assembly on Tuesday to again the coverage.

Oil costs, which had been on monitor to extend by over 20% this month, fell on…