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June 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. government has asked Saudi Arabia and some other OPEC producers to increase oil oil rig flanges gulf coast production by about 1 million barrels a day, Bloomberg reported https://bloom.bg/2JcgQvb on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The request comes after U.S. retail gasoline prices surged to their highest in more than three years and President Donald Trump publicly complained about OPEC policy and rising oil prices on Twitter.
It also follows Washington's decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran's crude exports that had previously displaced about 1 million barrels a day from global markets, the report said.
(Reporting by Laharee Chatterjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
