Oil
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2020, June, 18, 11:35:00
OIL PRICE: NOT ABOVE $41 STILL
Brent were up 2 cents at $40.73 a barrel, WTI dropped 14 cents to $37.82 a barrel.
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2020, June, 18, 11:20:00
WORLD OIL DEMAND WILL FALL BY 9 MBD
World oil demand is projected to decrease by 9.1 mb/d in 2020, unchanged from the previous month’s assessment. The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected global economic activities, eliminating global oil demand growth potential and leading to a y-o-y decline of 6.4 mb/d in 1Q20 and by 17.3 mb/d y-o-y in 2Q20.
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2020, June, 18, 11:15:00
U.S. OIL INVENTORIES UP BY 1.2 MB TO 539.3 MB
U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) increased by 1.2 million barrels from the previous week. At 539.3 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are about 15% above the five year average for this time of year.
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2020, June, 17, 12:50:00
OIL PRICE: NOT ABOVE $41 ANEW
Brent was up 29 cents, or 0.7%, at $41.25 a barrel, WTI rose 17 cents, or 0.4%, to $38.55 a barrel.
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2020, June, 17, 12:45:00
SAUDI ARABIA: THE TOP
Saudi Arabia exported nearly 11 million barrels of oil per day, a record, and the US about 8.6 million barrels.
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2020, June, 17, 12:40:00
GLOBAL OIL DEMAND UPDOWN
Oil demand in 2020 is expected to fall by 8.1 mb/d, the largest in history, before recovering by 5.7 mb/d in 2021.
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2020, June, 16, 14:25:00
OIL PRICE: NOT ABOVE $41 YET
Brent rose 77 cents, or 1.94%, at $40.49 a barrel, WTI gained 61 cents, or 1.64%, to $37.73 a barrel.
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2020, June, 16, 14:05:00
GLOBAL UPSRTEAM INVESTMENTS DOWN
Spending is also expected to be largely flat in 2021, landing only marginally higher than 2020 at $386 billion. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, expected total upstream investment would maintain last year’s levels, both in 2020 and 2021.
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2020, June, 16, 13:55:00
U.S. PRODUCTION: OIL (-93) TBD, GAS (-693) MCFD
Crude oil production from the major US onshore regions is forecast to decrease 93,000 b/d month-over-month in June from 7,725 to 7,632 thousand barrels/day, gas production to decrease 693 million cubic feet/day from 81,254 to 80,561 million cubic feet/day .
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2020, June, 16, 13:35:00
SOUTH AFRICA'S NUCLEAR CONSULTATIONS
South African Nuclear Power Programme may comprise a blend of baseload power combining both conventional PWR and SMR technologies to a total of 2500 MW
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2020, June, 16, 13:30:00
ARAMCO, SABIC ACQUISITION $69 BLN
Aramco had been looking to restructure the deal after SABIC’s market value fell more than 40% due to an oil price slump.
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2020, June, 16, 13:25:00
BP WRITE-OFFS $17 BLN
BP actions will lead to non-cash impairment charges and write-offs in the second quarter, estimated to be in an aggregate range of $13 billion to $17.5 billion post-tax.
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2020, June, 16, 13:15:00
SOUTH AFRICA'S OIL COMPANY
The government of South Africa has approved the merger of three oil and gas subsidiaries of the state-owned Central Energy Fund (CEF) into a National Oil Company.
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2020, June, 15, 14:00:00
OIL PRICE: ABOVE $38 YET
Brent was down 15 cents, or 0.4%, at $38.58 a barrel, WTI was down 49 cents, or 1.3%, at $35.77.
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2020, June, 15, 13:45:00
CHINA'S OIL THROUGHPUT UP
Crude oil throughput at China's domestic refineries further recovered to 13.69 million b/d