2020

Tajikistan's economic activity has been strong in 2018-19.

U.S. Rig Count is up 15 rigs from last week to 796, Canada Rig Count is up 41 rigs from last week to 244

Brent were up 12 cents to $64.74, WTI were up 11 cents at $58.63 a barrel,

Средняя цена на нефть Urals за период мониторинга с 15 декабря 2019 года по 14 января 2020 года составила $ 65,42711 за баррель, или $477,6 за тонну.

Iraq's oil production is steady at 4.46 million b/d in line with its OPEC+ quota and exports are averaging 3.45 million b/d, an oil ministry spokesperson said last week.

China Dec crude oil throughput up 13.6% y/y at 58.51 million tonnes

Iran's economy shrank by 4.6% in the 2018-2019 fiscal year and the contraction is expected to deepen to 7.2% in the current fiscal year, the IIF, a finance industry body, said this week.

The crude stocks held by Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi were 1.41 million kiloliters, or 8.87 million barrels, at the end of November, equating to four days of Japanese oil consumption, up from 1.1 million kiloliters a month earlier, according to data released Wednesday by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

A production cap has been put in place to prevent earthquakes linked to gas extraction at Groningen and the Dutch government plans to phase out gas extraction at the field completely by mid-2022.

In its first development phase, Leviathan has a production capacity of 1.2 Bcf/d (34 million cu m/d).