“Low-cost players such as Russia, combined with an upcoming ‘wall of supply’ from large-scale projects commissioned in the past 5-10 years, and additional supplies from Libya and Nigeria will make it difficult for crude prices to rise above US$55 in the near term, Goldman Sachs’s head of commodities research, Jeff Currie, said in an interview with Bloomberg television,” reports OilPrice.com.
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OPEC plans to diminish output to a range of 32.5 to 33.0 million barrels per day from its current estimated output of 33.24 million barrels per day. While Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s biggest producer, has agreed to reduce output, Iran, Libya and Nigeria might not follow suit.
“Last week, Goldman Sachs said that the OPEC output deal could add US$10 to crude prices. The Goldman analyst team, however, noted that it was skeptical about the chances of success for the deal. The bank pointed out that OPEC members don’t always feel obliged to stay within quotas, which will contribute to the ongoing uncertainty on oil markets,” according to OilPrice.
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