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    Brent dips towards $108

    September 26, 2013
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    Brent crude oil26 September 2013, News Wires – Brent crude prices eased towards $108 a barrel on Thursday on hopes of progress in resolving a long-standing dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme after Tehran said it wanted to jump-start talks with world powers.

    A large build in US crude inventories and a rebound in supplies from Iraq and Libya also weighed on prices.

    Brent crude futures shed 12 cents to $108.20 a barrel early on Thursday.

    US oil futures fell 30 cents to $102.36, on track for its sixth straight session of losses and its longest daily losing streak since May 2012.

    “No doubt those inventories out of the US had an impact across markets and news flow is continuing to improve in terms of tensions in Syria (and Iran), so a little bit of risk premium has certainly been removed from oil markets at the moment,” said Ben Le Brun, market analyst at OptionsXpress in Sydney.

    “Overall the picture out of Middle East this week has been improving so that’s why we’ve seen oil markets a little bit lower even though commodities have held up.”

    Iran’s new government said on Wednesday it wants to jump-start talks with world powers to resolve a decade-long dispute over its nuclear programme and hoped for a deal in three to six months.

    Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is set to hold talks on the nuclear issue on Thursday with US Secretary of State John Kerry as well as diplomats from Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, in a rare encounter between top American and Iranian officials.

    The West’s standoff with Iran over the Opec nation’s nuclear programme has helped support oil prices for nearly a decade. Years of sanctions have cut Iranian oil exports by more than 1 million barrels per day.

    The improving situation in Syria also pressured oil prices.

    Envoys from the US, Russia, France, China and Britain have come to an agreement on the core of a UN Security Council resolution to get rid of Syria’s chemical weapons, three Western diplomats said on Wednesday, but Russia denied such an accord had been reached and insisted work was “still going on.”

    Syria is not a major oil producer but prices had climbed in the past on worries that any escalation of Middle East violence could disrupt oil flows.

    Total oil inventories in the US rose 2.6 million barrels to 358 million barrels last week, which helped turn US crude futures lower immediately after the US Energy Information Administration data was released.

    The data also showed US exports of refined products, such as gasoline and distillates, last week reached the highest level on record at 3.4 million bpd, 17.5% higher than a year ago, as refineries process crude at high rates.

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