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Europe Turns To Middle East For Replacement Gasoil Supplies
...rope’s imports from the region (including re-exports from Egypt’s Sidi Kerir) jumped by 131,000 b/d to 559,000 b/d in September. This is the highest figure in Kpler data stretching back to January 2017, topping the previous record of 541,000 b/d set in October 2021. But it is still far from su...
Volume: 65Issue: 42Published at Fri, 21 Oct 2022 -
Opec+ Considers Further Cuts Amid Softening Market
...ventories remain severely depleted. The IEA says that despite a 43.1mn barrel rise in July, OECD commercial oil inventories remained 274.9mn barrels below the 2017-21 five-year average which Opec+ long cited as the target range. A period of restocking would be welcomed by most observers. The IEA cu...
Volume: 65Issue: 39Published at Fri, 30 Sep 2022 -
China Gas: Record Domestic Output & Piped Russian Imports Cut Need For LNG
...erland volumes from Russia since the start up of the ‘Power of Siberia’ pipeline at the end of 2019. For 2021 these volumes hit 10bcm, and deliveries saw a further 63% year on year surge to 7.6bcm for 1H 2022. As such LNG’s share of China’s gas imports has fallen below 60% for the first time since 2017, wi...
Volume: 65Issue: 30Published at Fri, 29 Jul 2022 -
Global LNG: Does The Current Boom Risk Seeding Its Own Downfall?
...tright contraction in demand to 2025 and beyond according to IEA projections. For China, the IEA predicts that gas demand growth will fall from an average of 11%/year for 2017-21 to somewhat below 5%/year for 2021-25 as, amid high gas prices, “gas-fired generation remains under pressure in the Ch...
Volume: 65Issue: 28Published at Fri, 15 Jul 2022 -
Opec: Another Month, Another Missed Target
...rget. With oil prices more than $100/B, the country has every reason to maximize output if possible. But gone are the days when the country was able to produce more than 1.7mn b/d – a level it last reached in October 2017. Even with efforts to boost effective capacity over the past few mo...
Volume: 65Issue: 27Published at Fri, 08 Jul 2022 -
Opec+ Ratifies Agreement To Unwind Cuts In August
...20. Iraq arguably has the wellhead capacity to go above its August allocation of 4.651mn b/d, but export capacity limitations mean it will struggle to do so (MEES, 15 April), while a 522,000 b/d capacity drop for Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) since 2017/18 means that Kuwait may struggle to hit its 2....
Volume: 65Issue: 26Published at Fri, 01 Jul 2022 -
Distillate Supply Crunch Concerns Rise As Stocks Fall
...ler (see chart 1). The three-month rolling average of 74,000 b/d in February was the lowest in Kpler data stretching back to January 2017. Many in the market will be hoping that the imposition of fresh lockdowns in Chinese cities may curb domestic demand sufficiently in the short-term to provide some te...
Volume: 65Issue: 11Published at Fri, 18 Mar 2022 -
Opec Production Edges Higher: Just A Drop In The Stormy Ocean
...oduction gains remain uncertain. Venezuela produced more than 2mn b/d as recently as 2017 but will likely require years to return output close to this level. …AND IRAN?... What about talks with Iran on reviving the JCPOA nuclear agreement which have supposedly been on the cusp of co...
Volume: 65Issue: 10Published at Fri, 11 Mar 2022 -
Majors Capex Down Again To Lowest In Over A Decade, 2022 To Remain Restrained
...ropean firms’ 2021 spending was disciplined, their US counterparts’ outlay was positively anemic. ExxonMobil’s spending fell by 22% to just $16.6bn, falling below that of Shell to make 2021 the first year since 2017 that Exxon has not been the top spending major. But Exxon is also penciling in the la...
Volume: 65Issue: 06Published at Fri, 11 Feb 2022 -
South Korea Crude Imports: Mideast Volumes Slump To 25-Year Low For 2021
...ddle East suppliers. From a market share of over 80% to 2017, Gulf countries’ share fell to 69% for 2020 (MEES, 15 January 2021) and slumped again to a record low 60% for 2021. In absolute terms the 1.576mn b/d that Korea imported from the Gulf last year was the lowest since 1996 (see ch...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
Taiwan: 2021 Sees Mideast Imports Rebound From 2020’s Record Lows
...are a six-year high. Saudi Arabia supplied 282,500 b/d, up 38% year-on-year for the highest quarterly figure since Q1 2020, whilst number two Kuwait was up 66% at 202,500 b/d for the highest quarterly figure since 2017. *In contrast, whilst the USA retained number three spot for Q4, volumes of 10...
Volume: 65Issue: 02Published at Fri, 14 Jan 2022 -
Kuwait’s Haitham Al-Ghais Elected Next Opec Secretary General
...rsed in all things Opec and is a veteran oil market analyst. He served as Kuwait’s Opec governor from 2017 until June 2021, since when he has been Deputy Managing Director for International Marketing at state energy firm KPC. All told, Mr Ghais has held a number of senior roles within KPC over the past th...
Volume: 65Issue: 01Published at Fri, 07 Jan 2022