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2019-09-24 18:15:00

OIL PRICE: ABOVE $62

OIL PRICE: ABOVE $62

REUTERS - Oil prices fell on Tuesday after weak manufacturing data from Europe and Japan focused market attention on a gloomy outlook for demand and as Saudi Arabia could restore oil output faster than anticipated following the attacks on its facilities.

Brent crude futures LCOc1 dropped 58 cents to $64.19 a barrel by 1339 GMT, after hitting a session low of $63.76. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures CLc1 were at $58.15, down 49 cents.

"Financial data was anything but encouraging yesterday," said Tamas Varga of oil brokerage PVM, pointing to sluggish manufacturing numbers in leading European economies and Japan.

Reuters reported on Monday that Saudi Arabia had restored more than 75% of crude output lost after attacks on its oil installations and would return to full volumes by early next week.

But the Wall Street Journal said repairs at the plants could take months longer than anticipated.

"There remains conflicting news coming out of Saudi Arabia, but an increasing number of reports pointing to Saudi Aramco purchasing external products and potentially also crude to meet its term commitments do not give the impression that an imminent return to full capacity is in sight," consultancy JBC Energy said.

State-run oil company Aramco has stepped up purchases of products such as naphtha, gasoline and diesel from Europe and elsewhere.

Still, oil prices remain at comparatively elevated levels for the year in the wake of the Sept. 14 attack on Saudi Arabia's largest oil-processing facility that halved output in the world's top oil exporter.

An increase in U.S. oil exports to Asia to replace Saudi crude and a reduction in U.S. imports from Iraq meant crude inventories in the United States could be lower than expected, said Mike Tran, commodity strategist at RBC Capital Markets.

European powers - Britain, Germany and France - backed the United States in blaming Iran for the Saudi attack, urging Tehran to agree to new talks with world powers on its nuclear and missile programs and regional security.

Meanwhile, a preliminary Reuters poll found on Monday that U.S. crude oil and distillate stockpiles were expected to have dropped last week. 

Seven analysts estimated, on average, that crude inventories fell by 800,000 barrels in the week to Sept. 20.

The poll was conducted ahead of inventory reports from the American Petroleum Institute, an industry group, to be released on Tuesday and from the U.S. government's Energy Information Administration on Wednesday.

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Earlier:

OIL PRICE: ABOVE $62
2019, September, 23, 14:30:00
OIL PRICE: NEAR $63
Brent crude fell 30 cents to $63.98 a barrel, WTI was down 38 cents to $57.71.
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $62
2019, September, 20, 15:45:00
OIL PRICE: NEAR $64
Brent crude LCOc1 was up 7.7% since last Friday’s close, the biggest weekly rise since January. The front-month November contract was at $64.88 a barrel, up 48 cents, by 1113 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 rose 59 cents to $58.72 a barrel, set to post a gain of over 7% for the week.
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $62
2019, September, 19, 14:35:00
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $64
Brent gained $1.44 to $65.04 a barrel, WTI was up 89 cents at $59 a barrel.
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $62
2019, September, 18, 18:35:00
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $63
Brent were down 75 cents, or 1.16%, at $63.80 a barrel, WTI were down $1.15, or 1.94%, at $58.19.
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $62
2019, September, 17, 13:10:00
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $67
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%.
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $62
2019, September, 16, 15:20:00
OIL PRICE: NEAR $66
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
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $62
2019, September, 11, 12:00:00
OIL PRICE: NEAR $63
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.
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