IEA Oil Market Report Summary… – Commodity Research Group

May 12, 2016 by Jim Colburn Leave a Comment

The IEA released it’s monthly Oil Market Report today…

Demand was up 1.4 mbd in the 1Q16:

“Global oil demand growth for 1Q16 was revised upwards to 1.4 mb/d, led higher by strong gains in India, China and, more surprisingly, Russia. For the year as a whole, growth will be around 1.2 mb/d, with demand reaching 95.9 mb/d.”

Here is a look at their expected supply/demand balance:

“Changes to the data in this month’s Report confirm the direction of travel of the oil market towards balance. The net result of our changes to demand and supply data is that we expect to see global oil stocks increase by 1.3 mb/d in 1H16 followed by a dramatic reduction in 2H16 to 0.2 mb/d.”

Here is the summary: https://www.iea.org/oilmarketreport/omrpublic/

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