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OPEC sees modest demand recovery in 2010
Published in Daily News Egypt on 16 - 09 - 2009

LONDON: Evidence of an impending upturn in the world economy appears to be gathering but recovery will be slow and gradual, OPEC said on Tuesday, as the group left its world oil demand forecast for 2010 unchanged.
World oil demand was expected to fall 1.56 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2009 before rising 500,000 bpd in 2010, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which supplies over a third of global oil, said in a monthly report.
Due to the weak situation in the world economy, demand growth in the first half of the year fell to the lowest level since the early 1980s, the group s report said.
Demand for OPEC s crude will average 28.06 million bpd in 2010, down 460,000 bpd from 2009, the consumer group said. That was a smaller decline than its 480,000 bpd previous assessment.
OPEC expects China, the Middle East and Latin America to drive oil demand next year. Consumption in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) group of industrial nations is still forecast to fall.
Tuesday s report pointed to a further reduction in OPEC s compliance with agreed supply curbs. OPEC, excluding Iraq, raised output in August to 26.33 million bpd, up from 26.20 in July, it said.
That reduced compliance with output targets to 64 percent from 67 percent in July, according to Reuters calculations based on OPEC figures. Members are often encouraged to relax adherence to supply limits when oil prices are rising.
Late last year, OPEC agreed to cut output by 4.2 million bpd, equal to about 5 percent of daily world demand, as recession eroded fuel use and sent oil prices sliding.
Compliance no 'headache'
As long as they do believe economic recovery is coming around and that will boost oil demand, compliance isn t going to be too much of a headache for OPEC now, Amrita Sen, senior oil analyst at Barclays Capital told Reuters Insider TV on Tuesday.
OPEC agreed at its ministerial meeting on September 9 to keep production levels unchanged for the time being as most members were comfortable with current oil prices.
US crude oil neared $70 a barrel on Tuesday, close to the year highs, having more than doubled from below $33 in December, supported by optimism over economic recovery and OPEC supply cuts.
Oil prices showed little initial reaction to the OPEC forecasts on Tuesday but later rose. Crude was up 84 cents a barrel at $69.70 as of 1234 GMT.
Supplies from non-OPEC countries was also expected to rise in 2010, boosted by higher output from the United States, Russia, Norway and Azerbaijan and revisions to historical data.
Non-OPEC supplies were forecast to rise by 420,000 bpd in 2010, 100,000 bpd less than previously estimated.
The group said there had been a steady accumulation of oil product stocks as the weak world economic environment sapped demand for middle distillates, which are used to produce diesel, heating oil and jet fuel.
Oil product stocks now represent more than 60 percent of the total oil oversupply compared to only 20 percent in January, the report said.
OPEC s report comes after two other major forecasters released monthly updates last week and it predicted a more modest recovery in global oil demand next year.
The US government s Energy Information Administration said it expects demand to average 84.58 million bpd in 2010, while the International Energy Agency forecast world consumption at 85.70 million bpd, both higher than OPEC.


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