A multilateral effort to ease global oil supply-side strains on the market hasn’t worked as designed, a Kuwaiti official said Thursday. Photo by Oskari Porkka/Shutterstock June 22 (UPI) — The multilateral effort to bring the global energy market back to a balance between supply and demand has fallen short, an exporter told a Kuwaiti news agency. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and a handful of other producers, notably Russia, started implementing a deal in January to ease the supply-side strains that weighed on oil prices last year through coordinated declines in production. In May, parties to the agreement decided to extend the terms by three months longer than originally planned, to March 2018. Market analysts were anticipating deeper cuts and crude oil prices have been on a steady decline since the start of June. Mohammed al-Shatti, a deputy chairman of the Kuwait Petroleum Corp., told the […]