Also, the oversupply is now dropping faster and more consistently on the back of
strong oil demand growth and the Brent futures flipping to backwardation, which discourages traders from keeping oil in storage.
Boosted by the bullish supply - demand reports, oil prices rallied on Monday, with Brent hitting a more than two - year high on
strong oil demand growth and the threat to Kurdish oil exports over the referendum on independence.
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.
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.»
In the month to end - September, the International Energy Agency (IEA) and OPEC issued reports suggesting that the global commercial
oil stocks have been diminishing, while
oil demand growth is
strong and expected to stay that way.
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.
Then Q2
oil demand growth figures started coming in, and showed that
demand growth was
stronger than expected and would continue to be robust in the months to come.
A recent report by the International Energy Agency revised
oil demand growth upward by 1.4 million barrels per day «led by
strong gains in India, China and, more surprisingly, Russia.»
In some of the
oil - producing Gulf states, where there are explicit dollar pegs,
demand growth is very
strong and inflation has increased.
Oil producers have also benefited from the global upswing, as
stronger economic
growth has spurred
demand for energy.
As supply remains
strong,
demand growth is expected to weaken alongside a decline in the economy of China, the world's No. 2
oil consumer.
Moore notes Wellard's earnings have
strong leverage to rising
demand for meat, a lower Australian dollar and
oil price, and «a clear
growth strategy that should underpin solid earnings
growth over the next few years.»
The strengthening industry performance is being driven by a combination of factors: • Lower
oil prices (forecast to be $ 55 / barrel Brent in 2015 and averaging a lower $ 51 / barrel in 2016) are giving airline profits a boost; however this is strongly moderated in many markets by the appreciation of the US dollar •
Strong demand for passenger travel (6.7 %
growth in 2015 and 6.9 % in 2016) is making up for disappointing cargo
demand growth (1.9 % in 2015; strengthening to 3.0 % in 2016).
...
Oil has been hit by the double whammy of
strong supply and weakening
demand growth.
The increase in emissions of the all - important greenhouse gas came as global energy
demand itself increased thanks to
strong economic
growth — and that
demand was sated by all types of energy, including renewables but also
oil, coal and natural gas.