1. OPEC Secretary General: ‘Data-Driven Messaging More Important Than Ever’

    ...wever, the IEA’s subsequent Oil 2024 report (analysis and forecasts to 2030) sees gasoline demand exceed 2019 levels in the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 (MEES, 14 June 2024). There are also examples for other energies, such as coal, with past IEA talk of global peaks in 2014, and then in 2024 st...

    Volume: 68
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2025
  2. Korea Crude Imports: Mideast Volumes Tumble To Multi-Year Lows

    ...*South Korean crude imports continue to tumble, slumping to 2.475mn b/d for 1Q 2021, the lowest quarterly total since 2Q 2014 as March imports also fell 14% month on month to 2.299mn b/d, marginally above November 2020’s seven-year low 2.294mn b/d.   *Prospects for a swift rebound are lo...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 16 Apr 2021
  3. Korea Q1 Oil Imports: Iraq Up, Saudi Down, Russia & US Records

    ...west quarterly share on record after the 69% figure in Q4 last year (MEES, 11 January). *Opec volumes were down even further: Q1’s 2.163mn b/d was the lowest quarterly figure since 2014, whilst Opec’s 70.5% Q1 market share was the lowest on record. Both figures would have been up, however, were it no...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019
  4. Opec Crude Risks Being Squeezed From The Market

    ...tput could fall further still. Opec output hasn’t fallen below 30mn b/d since June 2014, but it wouldn’t take much for it to fall below this threshold for April. Should the US opt against renewing waivers that permit certain countries to import Iranian oil once they expire on 2 May then it seems in...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 12 Apr 2019
  5. Geopolitics Roils Oil Market as Opec seeks Balance

    ...oducers, especially in the US, to lock in prices through hedging and invest in boosting output. Brent settled at $72.06/B on 12 April, the highest level since 1 December 2014’s $72.54/B. Mounting geopolitical concerns appear to be contributing as expectations grow that the US will pull out of the Iran nu...

    Volume: 61
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 13 Apr 2018
  6. Record US Oil Trade Belies Protectionist Rhetoric

    ...cord levels (see chart). Saudi volumes did dip in late March with ship trackers estimating a further fall to come. But then this needs to be put in perspective: March volumes were only low compared to January’s three-year-high levels; Q1 as a whole saw the highest volumes since early 2014. Ot...

    Volume: 60
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 14 Apr 2017
  7. Oil Market Inches Towards Balance, With Or Without Deal

    ...0,000 b/d on a year earlier (April 2015 marked the peak at 9.69), and the lowest since September 2014 (see p18).   IEA SUPPLY & DEMAND FORECASTS, APRIL 2016 (MN B/D) OPEC SUPPLY & DEMAND FORECASTS, APRIL 2016 (MN B/D) NEGATIVE NUMBER INDICATES THAT OUTPUT IS MORE THAN THE CALL IM...

    Volume: 59
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 15 Apr 2016
  8. OPEC March Output Tops 31mn B/D With Saudi, Iraq Near Record Levels

    ...14 vs 1Q14 2014 S Arabia* 10.10 ^9.72 +0.38 +0.51 9.69 9.84 +0.24 +0....

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015
  9. OPEC Revenues Take A Beating-EIA

    ...OPEC *The US government’s EIA says that Opec net oil export revenues (excluding Iran) fell to $730bn in 2014 and will fall by a further 48% to $380bn this year. *Extrapolating the EIA’s Jan-Feb ’15 number gives an even lower 2015 figure: $355bn. *For 2016, the EIA expects OPEC re...

    Volume: 58
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 10 Apr 2015
  10. OPEC Output Slides In March On Iraqi, African Outages

    ...ticipated additional volumes. “OPEC will be ready to absorb the extra production,” he told reporters in Doha this week. “There is no problem for OPEC to absorb any production increment from Iraq and Iran in 2014. When Libya output comes back, we will accommodate it, because its production is in our nu...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 15
    Published at Fri, 11 Apr 2014