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Saudi officials didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

U.S. Pressure

Although OPEC gave no figures in its communique about the output increase and ministers offered contradictory estimates, Al-Falih said the total hike from the cartel and its allies — including Russia, Oman, and Kazakhstan — would be “closer to 1 million than to 600,000 barrels a day.”

He declined to say last week how much the kingdom would pump in July, but promised a month-on-month hike in the order of “hundreds of thousands of barrels” rather than “ten of thousands.”

Within 48 hours of the group’s meeting, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said the OPEC+ boost “may be a little short” of what’s required to prevent an oil price spike over the summer.

“Seven hundred thousand barrels a day is what they are going to, and we need about a million,” he said. “Obviously, we have a market that is stressed from the standpoint of supply.”

Saudi Arabia is under pressure from the White House to pump more oil ahead of the U.S. midterm elections in November. Trump has publicly complained about OPEC policy and rising oil prices on Twitter. Moreover, U.S. lawmakers have resurrected the “No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act,” or NOPEC, which proposes making the group subject to the Sherman antitrust law that was used more than a century ago to break up the oil empire of John Rockefeller.

“Looks like OPEC is at it again,” Trump wrote in mid-April in a post on Twitter. “Oil prices are artificially Very High! No good and will not be accepted!” He criticized the cartel again in May and after last week’s meeting.