1. Pressure Mounts For Deeper Cuts As IEA, Opec Warn Of Demand Concerns

    ...UEEZE              The last few years have been tough for Opec, which has slashed production in a bid to rebalance the market. Production cuts entered effect in January 2017 and are looking increasingly likely to be extended until the end of 2020. Add in huge sanctions-related output falls in Venezuela and Iran – no...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 07
    Published at Fri, 14 Feb 2020
  2. Global LNG: Asian Demand In The Balance As Prices Fall To Record Low

    ...ES   2: JAPAN LNG IMPORTS - TOP 10 SUPPLIERS (MN T): AUSTRALIA & USA UP, EVERYONE ELSE DOWN AS OVERALL VOLUMES FALL TO LOWEST SINCE 2010 SOURCE: JAPAN CUSTOMS, MEES.   3: WORLD’S TOP LNG IMPORTER (MN T): CHINA OVERTOOK KOREA FOR #2 SPOT IN 2017. IT IS NOW CLOSING IN ON LONG UN...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 07
    Published at Fri, 14 Feb 2020
  3. Heavy Outages Weigh On Seemingly Well-Supplied Market

    ...rrels of last choice (MEES, 18 January). In reality’, demand for crude from Opec’s Middle East core is arguably on the rise due to the dynamics flagged up by the IEA. This dynamic has been a concern ever since the first Opec+ cut agreement came into force in January 2017 (MEES, 21 July 2017). But wi...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 07
    Published at Fri, 15 Feb 2019
  4. Russia, Saudi Arabia Commit To Enforcing Production Discipline

    ...rtainly be “extraordinary.” US crude and condensate production grew 467,000 b/d in 2017, but the latest production forecasts from the US government’s EIA are for a massive 1.27mn b/d increase this year. That’s still 120,000 b/d shy of the IEA’s expected global demand growth. But then the EIA also predicts an...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 07
    Published at Fri, 16 Feb 2018
  5. Opec: Can It Cut More And Cut Longer?

    ...rong, soaring supplies in countries not party to the deal, in particular the US and Brazil, have left Opec with an uphill task. Opec’s job has been helped by growing oil demand: whilst both the IEA and Opec revise up 2017 non-Opec supply in their latest monthly market reports, they revise up demand by...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 07
    Published at Fri, 17 Feb 2017
  6. IEA Slashes Non-OPEC Supply Growth projections

    ....54mn b/d in 2017 and 32.12mn b/d in 2020. Overall, the IEA expects the ‘Call on OPEC’ to increase 2.68mn b/d between 2014 and 2020. And with total capacity in the group’s 12 members rising 1.22mn b/d over this period, “barring any disruption, the group’s spare production capacity is expected to remain am...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 07
    Published at Fri, 13 Feb 2015