An industry survey finds some OPEC members moving against the grain despite near-full compliance with managed production decline agreement. File photo by A.J. Sisco/UPI Feb. 8 (UPI) — Members of OPEC exempt from a production agreement, and those producers who wanted such a break, are bucking rival trends, an industry survey finds. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to a collective production ceiling of 32.5 million barrels per day as of January. Some industry analysts continue to speculate over the level of compliance, however. Iraq, one of OPEC’s larger contributors, produced around 4.48 million barrels of oil per day on average in January, a survey from S&P Global Platts found. The country lobbied for an exemption from the OPEC agreement, citing a need to keep the revenue stream flowing as it battled against the Islamic State terrorist group. Baghdad acquiesced, however, to a ceiling of 4.35 […]