article thumbnail

IEA forecasts global oil demand to reach 101.6 mb/d in 2023; non-OECD countries lead expansion

Green Car Congress

Assuming Libya rebounds from a steep drop, the bloc’s production could increase 2.6 Despite economic headwinds, steady demand for light sweet crude in a tight physical market is boosting marker grade prices as they are in the same crude quality family. Non-OPEC+ is set to lead world supply growth through next year, adding 1.9

Oil 210
article thumbnail

Platts Survey: OPEC pumps 31.28M barrels of crude per day in June; highest since Aug 2012

Green Car Congress

As well as Basrah Light, Iraq is now exporting the newly-introduced Basrah Heavy crude oil. In Libya, output slipped by 20,000 b/d to 410,000 b/d as it continued to struggle to raise production due to ongoing security issues and technical limitations.

article thumbnail

Platts: June OPEC output of 32.73M barrels of crude per day, highest since Aug. 2008

Green Car Congress

million b/d, as production in Nigeria and Libya tentatively recovered along with steady increases for Saudi Arabia and Iran, according to an S&P Global Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials. The Persian Gulf producer has been reclaiming its market share and broadening its customer base.

article thumbnail

Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Cars That Think

It was after midnight in the Maltese search-and-rescue zone of the Mediterranean when a rubber boat originating from Libya carrying dozens of migrants encountered a hulking cargo ship from Madeira and a European military aircraft. The ship’s captain stopped the engines, and the aircraft flashed its lights at the rubber boat.

Europe 143
article thumbnail

US DOE, IEA member countries releasing a total of 60 million barrels of oil from reserves

Green Car Congress

The IEA estimates that the unrest in Libya had removed 132 million barrels of light, sweet crude oil from the market by the end of May. As part of this effort, the US will release 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The SPR is currently at a historically high level with 727 million barrels.

Oil 186
article thumbnail

Opinion: How Much Longer Can OPEC Hold Out?

Green Car Congress

However, OPEC has been in the line of fire from the western world in light of its stance of not reducing the production levels of its member nations (excluding Iran). Source: opec.org). Most view this as a strategy to squeeze the American shale production and other non-OPEC nations. Iran Nuclear Deal: A warning sign for OPEC?

article thumbnail

Increase in US rig count will not cap oil prices

Green Car Congress

The impact of rising oil prices on North American light tight oil (LTO) production is said to be a “Catch 22”, the title of Joseph Heller’s popular 1961 novel set in WWII. by David Yager for Oilprice.com. The premise was you could get out of the army if you were crazy but you weren’t crazy to try to get out of the army.