MOSCOW, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Oil markets will begin to tighten in the second half of 2016 but at a slow pace as global demand growth declines and non-OPEC supplies rebound, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday.
The IEA, in its monthly report, forecast a healthy draw in global oil stocks in the next few months that would help ease a glut that has persisted since 2014 on the back of rising OPEC and non-OPEC supply.
Oversupply helped send oil prices from $115 a barrel in June 2014 to as low as $27 in January this year. Crude later recovered to around $50 but fell again towards $40 in July.
“Oil’s drop … has put the “glut” back into the headlines even though our balances show essentially no oversupply during the second half of the year. Moreover, our crude oil balance indicates a hefty draw in the third quarter after a lengthy stretch of uninterrupted builds,” the Paris-based IEA said.
“The resulting product stock draw will increase refiners’ appetite for crude oil and help pave the way to a sustained tightening of the crude oil balance,” the IEA added.
It forecast global refinery throughput to rise by 2.2 million barrels per day (bpd) to a record 80.6 million bpd in the third quarter of 2016. But that would still lag expected demand growth, eroding some of the product stock cushion built since mid-2015.
The rebalancing will be slow, with inventories in developed economies reaching a record-high 3.093 billion barrels in June.
Meanwhile, global demand growth is expected to decline from 1.4 million bpd in 2016 to 1.2 million bpd in 2017, the IEA said.
The forecast for 2017 – although still above trend – was cut by 0.1 million bpd from last month’s report following a revision to the global economic outlook by the International Monetary Fund after Britain voted in June to leave the European Union.
Lower oil prices have forced high-cost producers such as the United States to slash spending and reduce drilling, resulting in an expected drop in non-OPEC output of 0.9 million bpd this year.
But next year, the IEA said, output from producers that are not part of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will rebound by 0.3 million bpd – an upward revision of 0.2 million bpd from last month’s report.
It cited the start-up of the giant Kazakh Kashagan field as a factor.
As a result of lower demand growth and higher non-OPEC output, the IEA cut its call on OPEC crude for 2017 by 0.2 million bpd to 33.5 million bpd.
That is close to OPEC’s production of 33.39 million bpd in July when output from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates reached record levels, pushing total OPEC supply to an eight-year high.
Post-sanctions Iran and Iraq have made the biggest gains so far this year, adding 560,000 and 500,000 bpd to their output respectively, the IEA said.
Cash-strapped Venezuela and Nigeria – beset by militant attacks – have each racked up year-to-date declines of roughly 150,000 bpd versus 2015. (Reporting by Dmitry Zhdannikov; Editing by Dale Hudson)
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