Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate started the week with gains after yesterday OPEC’s Secretary General, Mohammed Barkindo, said the cartel may have to take some “extraordinary measures” to restore the oil market stability. The jump follows a 3.3-percent decline last week, the sharpest weekly fall in four months. “There is a growing consensus that, number one, the re-balancing process is underway. Number two, to sustain this into next year, some extraordinary measures may have to be taken in order to restore this stability on a sustainable basis going forward ,” the top OPEC man said without elaborating on what these measures might include, although he mentioned that OPEC would welcome more participants in the production cut deal. Barkindo was speaking at the India Energy Forum in New Delhi yesterday. The OPEC agreement with Russia and 10 other producers to take off 1.8 million bpd from the global oil […]