Mongolia’s economy has recovered vigorously from the recent downturn. Economy growth accelerated to 8.6 percent in the first quarter of 2019, over fiscal balance turned into surplus in 2018, and gross international reserves have increased by $2½ billion since 2016.

Brent was down 36 cents, or 0.5%, at $68.66 a barrel, and WTI was down 57 cents, or 0.9%, at $62.33 a barrel. Earlier, the crude benchmarks both fell by around 2%.

World oil demand in 2019 is expected to grow by 1.02 mb/d, which is 0.08 mb/d lower than last month’s projection. The drop can be attributed to weaker-than-expected data in 1H19 from various global demand centres and slower economic growth projections for the remainder of the year. Both OECD and non-OECD demand growth forecasts were revised lower, by 0.03 mb/d and 0.05 mb/d, respectively. In 2020, world oil demand is projected to increase by 1.08 mb/d.

U.S. EIA - Crude oil production from the major US onshore regions is forecast to increase 74,000 b/d month-over-month in September from 8,769 to 8,843 thousand barrels/day, gas production to increase 469 million cubic feet/day from 81,893 to 82,362 million cubic feet/day .

Brent crude futures, the international benchmark, rose as much as 19.5% to $71.95 per barrel, WTI futures climbed as much as 15.5% to $63.34

Dollar-denominated bonds issued by Saudi Arabia’s government and state oil company Saudi Aramco tumbled to multi-week lows on Monday after a weekend attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities shut about 5% of global output.

Over the first eight months of 2019, total crude throughput at refineries across China was 5.9% higher year on year at 424.16 million mt, or 12.79 million b/d,

U.S. natural gas production continued to increase in August, setting a new daily production record of 92.8 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) on August 19, 2019,

Russia exported 248 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2018, mostly via pipeline to Europe. In the next decade, its liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports will almost triple to 68 bcm as the Yamal LNG project reaches full capacity and Arctic 2 LNG comes online (plus two smaller projects).

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However, over the past two years, global investment in renewable energy has been on the decline. Global investment in renewable energy peaked in 2017 at $326.3 billion, and in 2018 fell by 11.5% to $288.9 billion,

U.S. Rig Count is down 12 rigs from last week to 886, with oil rigs down 5 to 733, gas rigs down 7 to 153, and miscellaneous rigs unchanged at 0. Canada Rig Count is down 13 rigs from last week to 134, with oil rigs down 9 to 93 and gas rigs down 4 to 41.

Brent rose 40 cents, or 0.6%, to $62.78 a barrel , WTI were up 37 cents, or 0.6%, to $57.77 a barrel.

Brent crude oil spot prices averaged $59 per barrel (b) in August, down $5/b from July and $13/b lower than the average from August of last year. EIA forecasts Brent spot prices will average $60/b in the fourth quarter of 2019 and $62/b in 2020. EIA forecasts that West Texas Intermediate (WTI) prices will average $5.50/b less than Brent prices in 2020.

OPEC oil output averaged 29.71 million b/d in August, up 230,000 from July as production increases in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Nigeria and Iraq offset declines in Venezuela and Libya,