Call on OPEC capacity

Call on OPEC capacity is an estimate of the crude oil production volume required of OPEC countries to balance the global supply and demand for crude oil.

The concept is premised on the idea that other sources of crude oil typically run at full capacity and OPEC plays the market-balancing role to match total supply with total demand.

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