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Saudi Crude Exports Slump For Q3 On Record Oil Burn, Bumper Throughputs
...ghest on record behind 3Q 2017. Adding in direct crude burn, the figure of 2.78mn b/d was a nine-year high. 1: SAUDI CRUDE SUPPLY*: EXPORTS WERE SQUEEZED TO A NEAR 10-YEAR LOW 5.7MN B/D FOR Q3 (MN B/D).... 2: ...A RECORD LOW 63% CRUDE SUPPLY SHARE. IN CONTRAST, THE SHARE REFINED AN...
Volume: 67Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2024 -
Asian LNG Demand Remains Weak As Winter Approaches
...maining weak ahead of the key winter demand season. Collective buying by the top five Asian importers – China, Japan, South Korea, India and Taiwan – of 51.9mn tons for Q3 marked the lowest figure for the quarter since 2017, with imports remaining weak for October according to the latest Kpler data. Of...
Volume: 66Issue: 45Published at Fri, 10 Nov 2023 -
Opec+ Looks Ahead To Crunch Meeting
...riod since January 2017 (MEES, 6 January 2017). With the current agreement running to the end of April 2022, the Opec+ producers are facing up to the prospect of more than five years of cuts. Little wonder then if fatigue is setting in within the group. The post-JMMC communique said that “the Co...
Volume: 63Issue: 47Published at Fri, 20 Nov 2020 -
Saudi Reveals Record Stock Drawdown Post Abqaiq
...re diesel, but at 439,000 b/d, this was actually the lowest since May 2017. This was followed by jet kerosene and gasoline, which both rose above 200,000 b/d for the first time since August 2018 and July 2018 respectively. Net products exports are just about holding on to a year-on-year rise in...
Volume: 62Issue: 47Published at Fri, 22 Nov 2019 -
Opec Faces Five Years Of Pain
...ve been in place since January 2017 and there is growing fatigue among producers. Ecuador has decided it’s had enough and announced last month that it is quitting Opec (MEES, 4 October). Opec+ may well secure a further extension next month, but as the current situation with Iraq and Nigeria hi...
Volume: 62Issue: 45Published at Fri, 08 Nov 2019 -
OPEC Faces $200bn+ Question Next Week In Vienna
...rm or test new lows. After Brent settled below $60/B on 23 November for the first time since October 2017, prices have fluctuated either side of the line. The 2016 “Declaration of Cooperation” under which 24 countries (new Opec member Congo was not a signatory) agreed to cut some 1.8mn b/d ex...
Volume: 61Issue: 48Published at Fri, 30 Nov 2018 -
Total Reaps Mena Rewards Despite Iran Setback
...rs gas field Phase 11 and defend its position in the Abu Dhabi offshore ahead of the March 2018 expiry of its 13.33% stake in the Adma concession. Total successfully secured stakes in two of the three concessions that replaced Adma, and has held 40% at Al Shaheen since July 2017. While the return of...
Volume: 61Issue: 47Published at Fri, 23 Nov 2018 -
Saudi September Crude Exports At 20-Month High, But A Fall Is Coming
...ready in the works. Refining runs slipped to a five-month low of 2.63mn b/d in September – albeit still higher than any annual average. Meanwhile, crude exports rose to a 20-month high of 7.43mn b/d (since January 2017), up 220,000 b/d month-on-month (see data p7). January 2017’s 7.71mn b/d was the fi...
Volume: 61Issue: 47Published at Fri, 23 Nov 2018 -
Market Volatility Complicates Outlook As Opec Ponders Renewed Cuts
...ch price fluctuation within one year “is not healthy for producers, and it is definitely not healthy for consumers” (MEES, 17 November 2017). If Brent’s $22.30/B price range in 2017 was bad, this year’s $23.70/B is worse still. Omani Oil Minister Muhammad al-Rumhy said at Adipec that these ex...
Volume: 61Issue: 46Published at Fri, 16 Nov 2018 -
IEA Doubts US Shale Can ‘Single Handedly’ Meet Demand Growth
...ntinues to grow, albeit at a slower rate, out to the end of the IEA’s forecast period in 2040. Though the growth in renewables means use of oil in the power sector will fall by 2.5mn b/d versus 2017 levels, and use in cars will remain more or less level (with falling consumption in developed countries ca...
Volume: 61Issue: 46Published at Fri, 16 Nov 2018 -
Iran Launches JMMC Broadside Ahead Of Crunch Opec Meeting
...E surging 190,000 b/d to an all-time high of 3.18mn b/d, smashing the previous peak of 3.03mn b/d set in November 2016. While cutting output in 2017, albeit at a much slower pace than fellow members, the UAE continued investing in boosting production capacity and is now reaping the reward. Abu Dh...
Volume: 61Issue: 45Published at Fri, 09 Nov 2018 -
Saudi Crude Exports At 7-Year Low, Outweighing Products Gains
...Saudi Arabia is leading by example within Opec when it comes to withholding crude oil from global markets in order to erode the stock overhang. The kingdom’s crude exports are set to fall to a seven-year low in 2017. And while this has been partially achieved by ramping up refining rates and th...
Volume: 60Issue: 47Published at Fri, 24 Nov 2017 -
Global Output To 2040: Will Opec Be Squeezed Amid Offshore Growth?
...A PROJECTIONS*): OPEC SHARE TO EDGE UP FROM 43% IN 2016 TO 46% IN 2040 *2017 WEO, NEW POLICIES SCENARIO. 2: WORLD’S TOP 8 OIL PRODUCERS IN 2040 (MN B/D, IEA PROJECTIONS*) *2017 WEO, NEW POLICIES SCENARIO. ^2016 OUTPUT REBASED TO ZERO. 3: BRAZIL IS FORECAST* TO BE...
Volume: 60Issue: 47Published at Fri, 24 Nov 2017 -
IEA, Opec Diverge On Market Outlook Ahead Of Key Vienna Meet
...tionale is clear. Participants to the agreement are currently aligned that an extension is required. But, with demand set to outstrip supply for the remainder of 2017, they may be less inclined to back an extension in early-2018. And the more bearish IEA report says that “the market balance in 2018 does no...
Volume: 60Issue: 46Published at Fri, 17 Nov 2017 -
Opec Output Falls Ahead Of Key Meeting As US Shale Eyes Price Rally
...US E&P companies in October was the most of any month in 2017 and that the additional capital will facilitate increased investment and support US crude output growth. 1: OPEC BASKET AT $4/B PREMIUM TO WTI, 5-YEAR LOW DISCOUNT TO BRENT ($/B, MONTHLY AVERAGE PRICES*) SOURCE: ICE, OPEC. ME...
Volume: 60Issue: 45Published at Fri, 10 Nov 2017 -
US Exports Make More Waves, Taking Opec Share In Core Asian Markets
...ead with imports of 8.53mn b/d for January-September 2017 versus 7.97mn b/d for the US). But here too US trading patterns have been making waves, with imports from Saudi Arabia falling to just 504,000 b/d in October (based on weekly data to 27 October) the lowest monthly figure since 1987. For the we...
Volume: 60Issue: 44Published at Fri, 03 Nov 2017 -
Opec Producers Cash In On WTI Weakness Amid Tight Asia Market
...• Cuts to Opec output from the start of 2017 have focussed on the grouping’s Mideast core. This has tightened markets in Asia, raising the value of the Opec crude basket against Brent, and especially US marker WTI. The latter is priced at Cushing, Oklahoma, an inland location just to the no...
Volume: 60Issue: 44Published at Fri, 03 Nov 2017 -
Opec Shows No Sign of Cutting Ahead of November Meeting
...vember highlights the extent of the problem. If Opec output continues at current levels then, according to IEA demand projections, the market will only balance in Q4 2017. According to Opec’s projections any rebalance will have to wait till 2018 (see table). The IEA report raises expected 2017 non-Opec pr...
Volume: 59Issue: 45Published at Fri, 11 Nov 2016 -
Opec Market Share Policy To Bear Fruit Next Decade - But Not For All
...intain expensive plans to hike output. This assertion was backed up by Mr Mazru’i at Adipec in Abu Dhabi on 9 November, who stated that the fall in oil prices had not changed the country’s vision. He reaffirmed his commitment to increasing crude production to 3.5mn b/d by 2017, a target the IEA ap...
Volume: 58Issue: 47Published at Fri, 20 Nov 2015 -
More Pain To Come As Iea Sees $80/B ‘Rebalance’ But Not Till 2020
...2015-2020 CHANGE IN US TIGHT OIL OUTPUT AT VARIOUS OIL PRICES* (MN B/D) MARKET TO REBALANCE IN 2016? 2017? Mr Falih, the UAE’s Mr Mazru’i and Opec’s Mr Badri all are forecasting that balance will be restored to the global oil market in 2016. Mr Badri says that he ex...
Volume: 58Issue: 46Published at Fri, 13 Nov 2015