OPEC says the world will need less crude oil from the group in 2013 than it did last year as the lingering impact of recession crimps demand and rising biofuels supply makes up for shrinking production elsewhere.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, whose members supply about 40 percent of the world’s oil, slashed its forecast for global oil consumption in 2013 by 5.7 million barrels to 87.9 million barrels a day. OPEC will have to produce 31 million barrels of crude daily in 2013 to satisfy demand, compared with 31.2 million barrels last year, it predicted in an annual report today.“There is a growing perception that the economic slowdown will be U-shaped,
that is the recovery will gather momentum only gradually,” the group’s Vienna-based secretariat said in its World Oil Outlook published today. OPEC sees demand for its crude “rising slowly over the medium term, returning back to 2008 levels by around 2013.”
- Brewskie
If by 2013. Price spikes are a great way to ruin business. North America has more natural gas than it knows what to do with. Europe and Japan demand for crude has been falling for decades. China may mandate EV vehicles.
ReplyDeleteOPEC has a choice: Keep oil cheap and reliable, or lose market share continuously. B Cole