The stronger forecast is notable not just because it puts
oil demand growth at its hottest in a long time, but also because the IEA essentially shrugged off any lingering effects from the storms in the U.S., concluding that the «impact on global markets is likely to be relatively short - lived.»
Not exact matches
Oil at $ 80 could also slow down global oil demand growth, undermining one of the cartel and friends» key assumptions: that robust demand growth will absorb the non-OPEC supply and that demand growth will continue to be strong going forwa
Oil at $ 80 could also slow down global
oil demand growth, undermining one of the cartel and friends» key assumptions: that robust demand growth will absorb the non-OPEC supply and that demand growth will continue to be strong going forwa
oil demand growth, undermining one of the cartel and friends» key assumptions: that robust
demand growth will absorb the non-OPEC supply and that
demand growth will continue to be strong going forward.
Economic
growth is translating into
oil demand growth and comes
at a time that OPEC and Russia lead production cuts aimed
at tightening the market.
On the
demand side,
oil at $ 80 could hurt global
oil demand growth, which was the tailwind last year to help OPEC significantly reduce the oversupply.
Even
at a time of slowing
oil -
demand growth, «that's an
oil position I don't mind having,» says van Beurden.
Healthy
demand growth for fuel not only in emerging economies led by China and India, but also in Europe, is helping global inventories to draw down faster now, keeping the
oil market on the right track towards rebalancing, according to industry executives who spoke
at a conference on Tuesday.
According to Mike Muller, Vice President of Crude Trading & Supply
at Shell Trading, the soaring diesel fuel
demand and the buying of crude
oil to fill strategic reserves have been the key drivers of this year's higher
oil demand growth.
The expected strong
demand growth, coupled with OPEC's production cuts, is making
oil analysts and traders
at the Singapore conference more bullish this year than
at the same event last year, according to Bloomberg.
Yet, the truth is that if
demand growth stays
at the rate we are currently
at, then we will need that additional
oil to meet global
demand.
Demand growth «has stalled and that represents a significant change in the environment for producers both in OPEC and outside it,» said Dave Ernsberger, global head of
oil content
at S&P Global Platts.
While we have no idea where
oil prices will settle in the short run, it remains our view that
oil prices can not stay down
at today's depressed prices for too long, largely due to what we believe to be the relatively modest current level of excess capacity, our expectations of continued
growth in
demand over time, and the high marginal costs for finding and developing new sources of supply.
IEA highlights production
growth outlook for Brazilian
oil and biofuels even as
demand dips Deputy Executive Director presents medium - term forecast
at event organised by Ministry of Mines and Energy 20 April 2016
Did any of you
oil & gas industry promoters read that Mexico City had discovered a new aquifer
at 5000 feet of depth that will meet their
growth demand for the next 50 years or more, which might very well be a good reason not to pollute our deep depth aquifers too?
For 2018,
oil demand growth was also unchanged
at 410,000 bpd.
Reliance on foreign
oil imports increasingly puts the state's fuel supply
at risk, not only because of security and reliability concerns, but also because the marine ports are not expanding to meet expected
growth in
demand.
Sadad al - Husseini, recently retired as head of exploration and production
at Aramco, the Saudi national
oil company, notes that new
oil output coming on - line had to be sufficient to cover both annual
growth in world
demand of
at least 2 million barrels a day and the annual decline in production from existing fields of over 4 million barrels a day.
«World
oil resources,» it states, «are judged to be sufficient to meet the projected
growth in
demand to 2030 ″ (2); though it says nothing about what happens
at that point, or whether they will continue to be sufficient after 2030.