Russia Favors Further OPEC+ Output Hike in February Evgenia Pismennaya, Bloomberg News A worker overlooks the low-temperature isomerization unit at the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery plant, operated by Rosneft PJSC, in Novokuibyshevsk, Samara region, Russia, on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. Oil trimmed a second weekly gain as investors weighed rising U.S. inventories against coming coordinated output cuts by OPEC and other producing nations. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg , Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- Russia intends to support a further increase in OPEC+ production at the groupâs meeting next month, even as a new strain of the coronavirus raises concerns about demand, said officials familiar with the countryâs oil policy.