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.

МИНФИН РОССИИ - Средняя цена нефти марки Urals по итогам января – апреля 2019 года составила $ 65,18 за баррель. В 2018 году средняя цена на Urals в январе – апреле составила $ 66,15 за баррель. Средняя цена на нефть марки Urals в апреле 2019 года сложилась в размере $ 71,54 за баррель, в апреле 2018 года - $ 69,08 за баррель.

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.

Brent crude futures were at $71.00 a barrel, up 38 cents, or 0.5%, from their last close by 0624 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures were at $61.73 per barrel, up 7 cents, or 0.1%, from their previous settlement.

OPEC's collective crude oil production in April held relatively steady from March, rising just 30,000 b/d to 30.26 million b/d,

Brent crude oil futures were at $69.94 per barrel, 6 cents, or 0.1 percent, above their last close. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $61.56 per barrel at 0057 GMT on Wednesday, 17 cents, or 0.3 percent, above their last settlement.

Brent spot prices will average $70/b in 2019 and $67/b in 2020, compared with an average of $71/b in 2018.

Brent crude oil futures trading at $69.34 per barrel, down $1.51, or 2.1 percent, from their last close. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $60.57 per barrel at 0646 GMT on Monday, down $1.37 per barrel, or 2.2 percent, from their last settlement.

Brent crude oil futures were at $71.47 per barrel, U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were down 76 cents at $62.84 per barrel.

В рамках ОПЕК+ Россия к концу апреля вышла на уровень сокращения добычи нефти в 229 тбс без учета СРП и 223 тбс с учетом СРП. Об этом рассказал Министр энергетики Российской Федерации Александр Новак.

Russia is meeting its obligations under the OPEC/non-OPEC crude production agreement, and participants remain committed to the arrangement, despite ongoing uncertainty over world energy market developments.

OPEC is due to meet in June, where the Iran question will no doubt be raised. But oil and gas leaders are taking a cautious approach, with Kuwait's oil minister Khaled Al Fadhel noting that a decision would be taken only after a review of oil prices.

Asked whether Iran’s oil could be removed from the market, Mr. Barkindo said: “No repetition is needed. Eliminating Iran from the oil market is impossible.”

Oil prices fell on Monday, extending a slump from Friday that ended weeks of rallying, after President Donald Trump demanded that producer club OPEC raise output to soften the impact of U.S. sanctions against Iran.

Poland, Germany, Ukraine and some other countries suspended imports of Russian oil via the Druzhba pipeline this week due to the contamination. Russia said it plans to restore the pipeline to Europe to stability in two weeks.