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    Home » Oil scales one-year peak as OPEC+ rolls over output for April

    Oil scales one-year peak as OPEC+ rolls over output for April

    March 4, 2021
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    Bengaluri — Oil rallied more than 5% on Thursday to the highest in over a year, after OPEC and its allies agreed to keep production unchanged into April.

    Brent crude futures were up $3.38 or 5.28 pct at $67.45 a barrel by 12:43 p.m. ET (1743 GMT), after rising to $67.75, a peak since January 2020.

    U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose about $3.3 or 5.4% at $64.58, having also scaled its highest in more than a year, at $64.86.

    “OPEC surprised us by rolling over the cuts… The message OPEC is sending market is that they’re quite willing to see oil prices run hot and ultimately, go a long way in reducing the inventory overhang built last year because of COVID-19,” said Bart Melek, head of commodity strategies at TD Securities.

    Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman confirmed that the top crude exporter was extending its voluntary 1 million barrel per day (bpd) production cut and would in coming months choose when to gradually phase out this reduction.

    “There is one thorn to the bullish cocktail though and very few are surprised. Russia wants to boost output,” head of oil markets at Rystad Energy, Bjornar Tonhaugen said in a note.

    Russia and Kazakhstan have been allowed modest production increases under the deal.

    “Russia aside, the biggest winner of an OPEC+ rollover is the U.S.. With such price levels, which are now boosted even more after the news of a possible rollover consensus, the U.S. can comfortably increase production, even from costly break-even projects,” Tonhaugen added.

    In the United States, despite a record surge of more than 21 million barrels in crude oil stockpiles last week, gasoline stocks fell by the most in 30 years as refining plunged because of the Texas freeze.

    Also propping up sentiment, Yemen’s Houthi forces said they had fired a missile at a Saudi Aramco facility in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah.

    (Reporting by Arpan Varghese and Sumita Layek in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Bharat Govind Gautam, Naveen Thukral and Florence Tan; Editing by Marguerita Choy, Barbara Lewis and David Gregorio)

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