Entity

OPEC

OPEC — Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. A bloc of major oil-producing nations that coordinates output to influence global crude prices.

As of 19 Oct 2026Last evidence 18 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Nigeria Exceeds OPEC Crude Production Quota For 5th Consecutive Month

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • OPEC Sees Oil Demand Growth Surging to 2.6 Million Bpd in 2027

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • OPEC cuts India’s 2026 oil demand growth forecast to 40,000 barrels per day

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Shipping, Insurance Costs for Energy Flows Surge, OPEC, non-OPEC Ministers Say

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 4 events and claims involving OPEC

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 9 mentions on 19 Oct 2026, against 7 on 28 Sept 2026 (+29%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 9 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 18 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

322 documents · 49 publishers · 9% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 18 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.087: about 91% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 8 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside OPEC

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

OilIranMiddle EastSaudi ArabiaHormuzTrumpRussia
  • Oil · 292 shared documents
  • Iran · 145 shared documents
  • Oil Prices · 127 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Middle East · 125 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 117 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 104 shared documents
  • Brent Crude · 95 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Trump · 89 shared documents
  • WTI · 85 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Russia · 82 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 9 mentions on 19 Oct 2026 with 7 on 28 Sept 2026 (+29%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions -31% from 6 Sept 2026 to 19 Oct 2026, between 3 and 28 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions OPEC, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about OPEC yet. Ask about OPEC

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving OPEC

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Nigeria Exceeds OPEC Crude Production Quota For 5th Consecutive Month

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    could not check

  • OPEC Sees Oil Demand Growth Surging to 2.6 Million Bpd in 2027

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • OPEC cuts India’s 2026 oil demand growth forecast to 40,000 barrels per day

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Shipping, Insurance Costs for Energy Flows Surge, OPEC, non-OPEC Ministers Say

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

Walk the record from OPEC

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OPEC

Entity.

Evidence
322 documents · 49 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 3 Sept 2026, last seen 18 Oct 2026
Measured
9% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
19 Oct 2026
14 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (4)

  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names OPEC, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

What it connects to

Related records.

Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 9 Oct 2026.

Ask about OPECWatch OPEC

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 19 Oct 2026.