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US Shale Records Test Infrastructure Limits
...tput is now forecast to top 12mn b/d by the end of 2019 (see charts). For this year the EIA now forecasts 10.72mn b/d, up a whopping 1.37mn b/d on 2017 – a record annual gain, beating 2014’s 1.29mn b/d. The hike in forecasts comes in on the back of soaring oil prices. US marker WTI, having av...
Volume: 61Issue: 20Published at Fri, 18 May 2018 -
Oil Price Gains Prompt Debate Over Demand Slowdown
...The IEA is seeing signs that the global oil market is overheating, with recent price gains towards $80/B Brent potentially dampening demand growth. Opec meanwhile is sticking to the line it pursued in January when prices edged above $70/B for the first time since December 2014, that short-te...
Volume: 61Issue: 20Published at Fri, 18 May 2018 -
Opec Facing Tough Choices Ahead Of Vienna Meeting
...rporation (NOC) claimed 800,000 b/d-plus output last week, a level it has not sustained for a whole month since October 2014. Production disruptions are an ever-present risk, but more than half-way through May it seems as if a sizeable monthly gain is near-guaranteed. In Nigeria, the outlook is less po...
Volume: 60Issue: 20Published at Fri, 19 May 2017 -
OPEC Vs NON-OPEC: IT’S JUST THE BEGINNING…
...above $65/B, has given rise to suggestions Opec’s November 2014 decision not to intervene in oil markets has been vindicated and the struggle for market share between Opec and its high-cost rivals has, in effect, been won by OPEC. Not so says the International Energy Agency (IEA). If anything, the ba...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Algeria’s Youcef Yousfi Ousted In Cabinet Reshuffle
...ries of protests in the Sahara Desert between December 2014 and March this year, raising renewed fears about security and stability in a country that had seen its fair share of militancy during the 1990s. The intensity of the anti-shale protests at In Salah highlighted an ill-conceived approach in de...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My (OPEC) Brother
...e US has not imported a single barrel of Algerian crude since July 2014 (see graph). That’s not to say that the heavier grades are not feeling the impact of the US shale oil boom though to a lesser degree because US refineries, depending on their location, are not all configured to run the ultra-li...
Volume: 58Issue: 20Published at Fri, 15 May 2015 -
Saudi Arabia Sees No Need For OPEC Output Hike
...2014 as a whole, albeit by a much more modest 100,000 b/d (see table). In hiking its ‘call on OPEC’ figure the IEA cited continued non-OPEC outages, uncertainty as to the timing of a return in Libya to full production, worsening security conditions in northern Iraq as a result of pipeline sabotage an...
Volume: 57Issue: 20Published at Fri, 16 May 2014 -
IEA: US Shale To Sideline OPEC Going Forward
...erging and developing economies exceed that in the advanced economies for the first time, the IEA says. Chinese demand growth meanwhile is set to slow from 2014 onwards as the country’s government tries to shift the focus of its economic policy from one of aggressive growth to one emphasizing more ba...
Volume: 56Issue: 20Published at Fri, 17 May 2013