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IEA March Oil Market Report revises 2015 demand forecast upward

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out in the second quarter of 2014, global oil demand growth has since steadily risen, with year?on?year mb/d, bringing global demand to an average 93.5 mb/d, bringing global demand to an average 93.5 Global supply rose by 1.3 mb/d, as losses in Libya and Iraq offset higher supply from Saudi Arabia, Iran and Angola.

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New EIA report boosts estimates of global recoverable shale oil resources 10-fold to 345 billion barrels

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The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released a new report that estimates that shale oil and shale gas resources in the United States and in 137 shale formations in 41 other countries represent 10% of the world’s crude oil and 32% of the world’s natural gas technically recoverable resources—i.e., Source: US EIA.

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Increase in US rig count will not cap oil prices

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The argument emerged that having contributed to the collapse of world oil prices, US LTO was the new global swing producer, replacing OPEC leader Saudi Arabia in that role. The geological and commercial differences between the two couldn’t be more glaring. That’s when it became an important world oil price driver for the first time.