Oil demand

Global demand for oil and natural gas is likely to continue growing for the foreseeable future, although talk of an impending oil price “supercycle” has proved premature for now, a panel of experts agreed Friday. For the next five years, “We have a very constructive view on oil demand,” said ConocoPhillips chief economist Helen Currie…

Oil prices rallied this week as traders absorbed new – and elevated – forecasts for 2021 amid signs that U.S. inventories could trail rising demand as the year unfolds. Key oil benchmarks traded near 13-month highs this week, with West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude surpassing $63/bbl on Thursday and Brent crude hovering around $67. WTI…

Global demand for petroleum products plummeted in 2020, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) confirmed in a report Friday, noting the dramatic impacts of government lockdowns and travel restrictions imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus. EIA estimated 92.2 million b/d of petroleum and other liquid fuels were consumed globally in 2020, a 9%…

U.S. crude oil stockpiles shrank by 6.1 million bbl during the week leading up to Christmas amid modest increases in demand for both motor gasoline and jet fuel, according to inventory data published Wednesday by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Crude stockpiles excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve decreased 0.5% to finish at 493.5 million bbl…

Amid the upheaval imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 global energy consumption in the transportation sector is forecast to decrease 10% year/year, led lower by an 11% drop in oil consumption, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Thursday. This decline is expected to account for nearly two-thirds of the total expected year/year pullback in oil…

Consolidation between oil and gas independents is expected to accelerate as the turn toward an energy transition turns on climate change initiatives, according to research by Wood Mackenzie. “A world on a 2 C glidepath does not need thousands of Independents chasing volume,” said consultancy Vice President Luke Parker.  Oil and gas investors are gravitating…

The International Energy Agency (IEA) on Thursday lowered its 2020 global oil demand forecast, citing the intensifying effects of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and Europe. The Paris-based global energy watchdog dropped its 2020 forecast by 400,000 b/d and said it expects a contraction of 8.8 million b/d. IEA estimated global oil demand…

Demand for petroleum products mounted early in October, cutting into U.S. inventories of crude and refined products, but a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic across swaths of the Lower 48 and Europe threaten to thwart the trend and weigh down oil prices. Demand for fuel derived from oil was crushed earlier this year by the…

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic and its economic impacts, energy demand is set to drop by 5% in 2020, with oil and gas investments falling by an estimated 18%, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The global energy watchdog on Tuesday issued its flagship World Energy Outlook 2020 (WEO-2020), with the pandemic…