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Business News/ Market / Stock-market-news/  Oil rises to one-month high as Saudi Arabia sees output curbs into 2018
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Oil rises to one-month high as Saudi Arabia sees output curbs into 2018

Oil has climbed as Saudi Arabia and non-Opec member Russia rally support for a nine-month extension to the deal to curb output by Opec and its allies

The exact duration of the extension of output cuts will be discussed in Vienna on 25 May, said Opec secretary-general Mohammad Barkindo. Photo: BloombergPremium
The exact duration of the extension of output cuts will be discussed in Vienna on 25 May, said Opec secretary-general Mohammad Barkindo. Photo: Bloomberg

New York/London: Oil rose to the highest in a month as Saudi Arabia said all producers participating in output cuts agree on prolonging the deal through the first quarter of 2018.

Futures climbed as much as 1.5% in New York after advancing 5.2% last week. Prolonging the cuts will help producers reach their goal of trimming stockpiles in developed economies to the five-year average, Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Khalid Al-Falih said on Sunday. The exact duration of an extension will be discussed in Vienna on 25 May, said Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) secretary-general Mohammad Barkindo.

Oil has climbed as Saudi Arabia and non-Opec member Russia rally support for a nine-month extension to the deal to curb output by Opec and its allies. Not all participants were fully on board with the proposal, with Iraq supporting another six months of cuts, according to Falah al-Amri, the head of the country’s state oil marketing organization.

“The Saudi statement that everyone agreed to a nine-month extension spurred optimism that the cuts will do something to correct the over-supply scenario," Gene McGillian, manager of market research for Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut, said.

West Texas Intermediate for June delivery, which expires on Monday, rose 27 cents, or 0.5%, to $50.60 a barrel at 9.34 am on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Total volume traded was about 22% above the 100-day average. The more active July contract advanced 27 cents to $50.94.

Cut extension

Brent for July settlement rose 25 cents, or 0.5%, to $53.86 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. The global benchmark crude traded at a $2.92 premium to July WTI.

“Opec and some non-Opec producers are highly-likely to maintain cuts for another six to nine months and this is likely to drive global oil inventories down towards normal at the end of 2017," said Bjarne Schieldrop, chief commodities analyst at SEB AB in Oslo. “But if the US market keeps adding 30 rigs a month till then, production is likely to grow by 2.3 million barrels a day, putting a downside price risk on 2018 and 2019."

Rigs targeting crude in the US are on the longest run of gains since August 2011, climbing by eight to 720 last week, according to data released on Friday from Baker Hughes Inc.

Iraq’s oil minister Jabbar al-Luaibi said almost all countries participating in the cut had agreed to extend it, though there was no consensus yet on how long the extension should be. “Some ministers say nine months, some ministers think six months," al-Luaibi said on Sunday. Iraq is Opec’s largest oil producer after Saudi Arabia. Bloomberg

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Published: 22 May 2017, 09:14 PM IST
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