Oil stares at a bleak future as China’s economy sputters. The good news: A market ‘bust’ is unlikely SINGAPORE — As the world’s oil traders and analysts gathered at the annual Asia Pacific Petroleum Conference in Singapore last week, the slump in oil and where it was headed was foremost in everybody’s mind. China, the main engine driving the world’s oil demand, has been sputtering. In the International Energy Agency’s most recent September report, year-on-year global oil demand grew 800,000 barrels per day in the first half of 2024, decelerating to its slowest growth since 2020 . The main reason for the downturn is a “rapidly slowing China,” where consumption contracted for the fourth consecutive month in July, year on year. China is the world’s largest importer of oil as well as the second-largest consumer, making up 15% of global oil consumption. This tepid demand, coupled with oversupply, drove U.S. crude prices to their lowest in over a year earlier this month. Iraq and Kazakhstan, key OPEC+ members, have produced above their monthly quotas under the oil group’s agreement. Members of the alliance recently postponed plans to hike a planned output increase of 180,000 barrels per day in October, as part of a program to return a broader 2.2 million barrels per day to the market over the following months. Given the situation, lower oil prices were the dominant theme in Asia’s largest oil conference. The question was not whether oil will go lower, but mostly by how much will it decline in the coming years. Oil at $50? Goldman Sachs’ Co-Head of Global Commodities Research Daan Struyven estimated that crude prices could fall to the low $60s per barrel level by within the next two years, if China demand remained tepid. He did not rule out an even steeper decline. “We estimate that Brent could fall to roughly $50 per barrel in a moderate [U.S.] recession … We have a fairly benign view on the global economy,” Struyven said during the conference. The U.S. economy has remained resilient even as high interest rates aimed at curbing sticky inflation have slowed growth and raised recessionary concerns. That said, Americans believe that the U.S. is already in a recession, according to a survey. Source- https://lnkd.in/gtHpQWjB #news #oil #gas #economy
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