2020

Brent was up by 51 cents, or 0.9%, at $58.26 a barrel, WTI was up 55 cents, or 1.1%, at $52.60 a barrel.

Oil demand growth in 2020 is revised down by 0.23 mb/d from the previous month’s assessment. With this, global oil demand is now forecast to grow by 0.99 mb/d and average 100.73 mb/d for 2020,

EIA now expects global petroleum and liquid fuels demand will rise by 1.0 million b/d in 2020, which is lower than the forecast increase in the January STEO of 1.3 million b/d in 2020, and by 1.5 million b/d in 2021.

We have cut our 2020 oil demand growth forecast by 365 kb/d to 825 kb/d, the lowest since 2011.

While Gazprom has said it’s looking at options to complete the pipeline, it hasn’t given any details on where it will find the ship to do the work. One of the pipeline’s financial backers, Austrian gas and oil company OMV AG, has predicted that the Russians will follow through.

Средняя цена на нефть Urals за период мониторинга с 15 января 2020 года по 14 февраля 2020 года составила $ 57,49804 за баррель, или $ 419,7 за тонну.

Crude oil production from the major US onshore regions is forecast to increase 18,000 b/d month-over-month in February from 9,157 to 9,175 thousand barrels/day, gas production to decrease 172 million cubic feet/day from 85,619 to 85,447 million cubic feet/day .

Вашингтон пошел на очередное расширение санкционного нажима на российские структуры. На прошлой неделе такой шаг предпринят в отношении ряда предприятий отечественного оборонного комплекса, теперь – против одной из дочерних фирм компании «Роснефть».

Объявленные Минфином США санкции в отношении дочерней компании «Роснефти» RTSA и председателя Совета директоров этой компании незаконны, необоснованны и представляют собой акт правового произвола.

The $50-billion award was originally made in 2014 by The Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration after a claim was brought by three former shareholders in Yukos – Veteran Petroleum, Yukos Universal Ltd, and Hulley Enterprises Ltd.