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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 81.18 | +0.12 | +0.15% | ||
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Bonny Light • 29 days | 86.00 | -0.62 | -0.72% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 81.37 | -0.08 | -0.10% | ||
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Mars US • 266 days | 75.97 | -1.40 | -1.81% | ||
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Gasoline • 11 hours | 2.461 | -0.007 | -0.29% |
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Bonny Light • 29 days | 86.00 | -0.62 | -0.72% | ||
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Girassol • 29 days | 87.27 | -0.38 | -0.43% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 81.37 | -0.08 | -0.10% |
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Peace Sour • 19 hours | 72.28 | +0.69 | +0.96% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 19 hours | 72.28 | +0.69 | +0.96% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 19 hours | 79.18 | +0.89 | +1.14% | ||
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Central Alberta • 19 hours | 72.28 | +0.69 | +0.96% |
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Eagle Ford • 3 days | 74.07 | +0.63 | +0.86% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 75.00 | +2.00 | +2.74% | ||
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Kansas Common • 3 days | 67.75 | +0.50 | +0.74% | ||
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Buena Vista • 4 days | 83.27 | -2.82 | -3.28% |
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Rystad Energy Expects Strong Demand to Drive Oil Prices Higher
Global oil demand remains pretty solid and could surprise to the upside this year, tightening market balances and potentially leading to higher prices, Claudio Galimberti, head of global oil macro research at Rystad Energy, told Bloomberg in an interview this week.
So far into 2024, oil prices have remained stuck in a narrow trading range of around $75 to $80 per barrel Brent. That’s mostly because market players perceive global oil demand is currently weak.
However, demand continues to grow steadily, which would lead to a tight market this year and push oil prices higher, according to Galimberti.
Solid demand growth leads Rystad Energy to expect tight balances in the first and second quarter of 2024, and as a result – higher prices, Galimberti told Bloomberg.
“We can call the market a Saudi market in the past six-eight months, because they single-handedly generated a shortage on the market implementing their very significant cuts,” he added.
Rystad Energy’s analysts reckon that oil demand will shoot up this year “quite dramatically” and this would allow Saudi Arabia, and potentially OPEC, to gradually unwind their cuts.
At some point in the course of 2024, the oil market will be tight even without very deep cuts from the Saudis and OPEC, Galimberti said.
Oil prices have been stuck below $80 per barrel this year, despite the escalation of tensions in the Middle East, as traders continue to be concerned about the pace of oil demand growth in China and other major economies this year.
OPEC expects robust demand growth in 2024 and 2025, while the International Energy Agency (IEA) has significantly lower estimates of demand growth this year, even if it raised last week its demand growth forecast for a third consecutive month.
The IEA sees global oil demand growth at 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) this year compared to 2023, while OPEC expects growth of around 2.2 million bpd.
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The reason this hasn’t happened yet is because of manipulations of the market by oil traders, speculators and the United States intended to depress oil prices to aid the stagnating US economy and also help refill the US SPR. They sold the market a false claim of a weak demand and they now believe this claim.
However, no one can deceive the market for ever and that a robust oil demand will eventually prevail with prices surging towards 90-100 dollars early in 2024.
Meanwhile, the Saudi voluntary production cut of 1.0 mbd since lat year is a cut that never has been since the Saudis couldn’t have been able to produce the cut anyway because of production difficulties.
The Saudi voluntary cuts will extend to 2024 and far beyond and will become a permanent feature of the global oil market.
Dr Mamdouh G Salameh
International Oil Economist
Global Energy Expert