• OPEC+ has agreed to boost production by 411,000 barrels per day in June.
• Oil prices in April posted the biggest monthly loss since 2021
• President Trump's tariffs have raised fears of a recession that will slow demand at the same time that OPEC+ is quickly increasing supply.

U.S. crude oil futures fell about 2% on Monday to close at the lowest in four years, after OPEC+ agreed to hike production for a second month.

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lost $1.16, or 2%, to close at $57.13 a barrel, the lowest settlement since February 2021. Global benchmark crude fell $1.06, or 1.7%, to settle at $60.23 per barrel. Oil prices have fallen about 20% this year.

The eight producers in the group, led by Saudi Arabia, agreed on Saturday to by another 411,000 barrels per day in June. The decision comes one month after OPEC+ surprised the market by agreeing to by the same amount.

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The June production increase is nearly triple the 140,000 bpd that Goldman Sachs had originally forecast. The moves mean that OPEC+ is bringing more than 800,000 bpd of additional supply to the market over the course of two months.

Oil prices in April posted the biggest monthly loss since 2021, as U.S. President Trump's higher tariffs have raised fears of a recession that would slow demand for oil at the same time that OPEC+ is quickly increasing supply.

"Our key conviction remains that high spare capacity and high recession risk skew the risks to oil prices to the downside despite relatively tight spot fundamentals," Daan Struyven, Goldman's head of oil research, told clients in a report on Sunday. The investment bank has cut its forecast for U.S. crude prices this year by $3 to $56 per barrel.

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Oilfield service firms such as and are expecting investment in exploration and production to due to the weak price environment.

"The prospects of an oversupplied oil market, rising tariffs, uncertainty in Mexico and activity weakness in Saudi Arabia are collectively constraining international upstream spending levels," Baker Hughes CEO Lorenzo Simonelli said on the company's first-quarter earnings call on April 25, referring to exploration and production.

Oil majors and Exxon reported first-quarter earnings last week that fell compared to the same period in 2024 due to lower oil prices.