2019-05-17 07:55:00
OIL NEED PEACE
ENA - The region needs more peace and stability to ensure the flow of oil supplies, Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, has said, noting that, "Any tension that occurs in the region affects the whole world."
OPEC Secretary-General made the remarks, in a press statement in Abu Dhabi yesterday, during the official launch of the project to establish the 250,000-barrels per day (bpd) capacity refinery to produce the International Maritime Organisation, IMO, 2020-compliant bunker fuel in Fujairah.
Barkindo added that it is too early to talk about OPEC's decision to continue to reduce the production of oil producing countries and their allies or not. He pointed out that OPEC still needs more accurate data on the market and that the final decision on whether to continue to reduce or not will be determined in June.
UAE-based Brooge Petroleum and Gas Investment yesterday unveiled a plan to build the refinery to produce IMO 2020-compliant bunker fuel in Fujairah, scheduled for completion by the first quarter of 2020.
From 1st January 2020, IMO will enforce its Marpol Annex VI regulation mandating all ocean-going vessels to burn bunker fuels with a maximum sulphur content of 0.5%, down from the current limit of 3.5%.
The refinery will be the first of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa to comply with the upcoming IMO 2020 regulation.
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Earlier:
2019, May, 15, 12:10:00
OIL PRICE: NEAR $71
Brent crude futures were at $71.06 a barrel at 0646 GMT, down 18 cents, or 0.3%, from their last close. Brent ended 1.4% higher on Tuesday. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $61.33 per barrel, down 45 cents, or 0.7%, from their previous settlement. WTI closed up 1.2% in the previous session.
2019, May, 15, 12:05:00
OIL DEMAND GROWTH 2019: 1.3 MBD
IEA - Our headline growth estimate for 2019 has changed little since the middle of last year, but this month we cut it by 90 kb/d to a still healthy 1.3 mb/d.
2019, May, 15, 11:25:00
IRAN NEED 1.5 MBD
The sanctions have already more than halved Iranian oil exports to 1 million bpd or less, from a peak of 2.8 million bpd last year. Exports could drop to as low as 500,000 bpd from May, an Iranian official told Reuters this month.
2019, May, 8, 11:50:00
OIL PRICES 2019-20: $70 - $67
Brent spot prices will average $70/b in 2019 and $67/b in 2020, compared with an average of $71/b in 2018.
2019, April, 29, 11:30:00
OIL PRICE: WILL BE $100
"Not extending the oil waivers of some countries is another side of the US measures against Iran. But if Iran's oil is fully sanctioned, oil price will go higher than $100 per barrel,"
