OECD Stocks Below Last Year, OPEC Compliance Weakens… IEA

August 13, 2017 by Jim Colburn Leave a Comment

From the IEA’s Oil Market Report released on Friday:

…”new data suggests that in 2Q17 global stocks fell by 0.5 mb/d and preliminary data for July, particularly in the United States where stocks fell by 790 kb/d, is supportive. Even so, we must not forget that they are falling from a very great height in volume terms. At the end of 2Q17, OECD commercial stocks, which are the component of the global total for which we have the most visibility, stood at 3 021 million barrels, still more than 219 mb above the five-year average although they have now fallen below 2016 levels.”

“The compliance rate with OPEC’s output cut fell again in July to a new low of 75% from June’s revised figure of 77%. For those non-OPEC countries acting in support, their compliance rate in July was 67%. ”

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