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Korea Crude Imports: Saudi Dominant With Mideast Share At 5-Year High
...pplier spot behind the USA (down 1% at 336,000 b/d). This puts the UAE on track for the highest annual figure since 2014’s 299,000 b/d. *Number five Iraq was up fractionally at 251,000 b/d for 9M 2023. The other big gainer was Qatar, up 56% at 215,000 b/d, albeit versus 2022’s 20-year lo...
Volume: 66Issue: 42Published at Fri, 20 Oct 2023 -
China Crude Imports: Mideast Volumes Hit Record Highs
...r full data). CHINA CRUDE IMPORTS ('000 B/D): MIDEAST VOLUMES AT RECORD HIGH FOR 9M21 SOURCE: CHINA CUSTOMS, MEES CALCULATIONS. The Middle East’s share of the China market peaked at 52% in 2014 but slid in the following years amid record volumes from the likes of Br...
Volume: 64Issue: 42Published at Fri, 22 Oct 2021 -
Korea Crude Imports 6-Year Low, Taiwan Lowest In Decades
...e lowest annual figure since 2014. MIDEAST SLUMP Not only are Korean imports down but Middle East volumes are down further, by 10% for the first nine months of 2020 with Korea taking an 11-year low of just 1.68mn b/d from the Middle East in September. The region’s share of th...
Volume: 63Issue: 42Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2020 -
US Permian Shale: Can It Maintain The Gains?
...ALE RIG COUNT: PERMIAN RIGS ROSE TO 485 IN SEPTEMBER, HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE 2014; PERMIAN SHARE OF TOTAL ‘SHALE’ RIGS HIT RECORD 52%, REVERSING Q2 DIP WHEN OPERATORS MOVED RIGS TO BAKKEN, EAGLE FORD US ‘DUC’ COUNT SOARS PAST 8,000: WHILST OPERATORS CONTINUE TO DRILL WELLS, COMPLETIONS HA...
Volume: 61Issue: 42Published at Fri, 19 Oct 2018 -
Saudi ‘Demonstrates Leadership’ by Keeping Crude Exports Low
...most three years ago (MEES, 22 December 2014). Supplies to the closely-watched US market are at 30-year lows and Saudi Arabia has confirmed there will be no easing up in November. In a first statement of its kind the Saudi energy ministry said on 9 October that the kingdom will export 7.15mn b/d in No...
Volume: 60Issue: 42Published at Fri, 20 Oct 2017 -
Does Opec Have A Strategy For ‘Lower For Ever’?
...rket share based strategy chimes with that enunciated by former Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi in late 2014 (MEES, 22 December 2014) but now abandoned. This requires a price low enough to drive competitors out of the market. But the strategy of foregoing short-term revenue for long-term gain was ab...
Volume: 60Issue: 42Published at Fri, 20 Oct 2017 -
Saudi Oil Exports Fall Amid Record Products Demand & Oil Burn
...el oil consumption to 624,000 b/d, its highest level since the 635,000 b/d record fuel oil consumption for December 2014. Fuel oil imports also rose to 204,000 b/d for August – another record. While monthly crude oil burn continues to be lower year-on-year, the new total oil burn record calls into qu...
Volume: 59Issue: 42Published at Fri, 21 Oct 2016 -
Global Supply Overhang May Last Till 2017; OPEC Output Largely To Blame
...mber of active rigs offshore Brazil has fallen from 40 to 21 over the last two years (see p10). Though the IEA projects overall non-Opec output of 58.3mn b/d for 2015, up 1.3mn b/d on 2014, output will finally begin to fall this quarter with the predicted 2016 figure of 57.8mn b/d down 500,000 b/d on 20...
Volume: 58Issue: 42Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2015 -
No End In Sight To Record Saudi Drilling
...eting, Mr Naimi told energy ministers that the Opec kingpin would be pressing on with its investments in all phases of the oil and gas sector, despite the plunge in oil prices (MEES, 9 October). Since steering Opec toward its November 2014 decision to pursue market share over oil prices, Mr Naimi has al...
Volume: 58Issue: 42Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2015 -
Saudi Arabia Takes On Oil Market Bears
...om the previous month’s forecast, based on expectations of slower global economic growth for both this and next year. This would represent growth of only 700,000 b/d for 2014, rising to 1.1mn b/d in 2015. Non-OPEC supply growth next year is estimated at 1.2mn b/d. This in turn has cut the call or de...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
IEA, OPEC See Deeper Cuts In 2014 Call On OPEC
...OPEC IEA, OPEC See Deeper Cuts In 2014 Call On OPEC Stronger non-OPEC crude oil supplies are set to sideline OPEC supplies by even more than previously thought, despite a predicted resurgence in world oil demand growth to levels last seen in 2009, the International En...
Volume: 56Issue: 42Published at Fri, 18 Oct 2013