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Standard Chartered: Oil Markets Can Easily Absorb Extra OPEC+ Barrels

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Oil markets kicked off the new year in a downbeat mood, with Wall Street analysts almost unanimously predicting a huge oversupply in 2025 even if OPEC+ did not add a single barrel back into the market. Well, it’s six months on, and oil markets have continued to defy these bearish expectations.

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OPEC+ Surprises With Oversized Output Hike

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OPEC+ will ramp up oil production more aggressively than anticipated in August, accelerating the rollback of its 2023 voluntary supply cuts in a bid to capture market share amid peak summer demand.

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OPEC+ to Complete Unwinding of Oil Output Cuts With Big September Hike

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million barrels per day (bpd) production cuts from 2023 with another supersized output hike of 550,000 bpd for September, five sources with knowledge of the alliance’s discussions told Reuters on Monday. The eight OPEC+ producers withholding supply to the market are set to complete the unwinding of their 2.2

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Putin Extends Russian Oil Export Ban to Price Cap Countries Through 2025

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The decree, which first took effect in February 2023, prohibits Russian producers from exporting oil to foreign entities or individuals whose contracts include the $60 per barrel price ceiling set by the so-called Price Cap Coalition—primarily the G7 and EU nations.

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USA EIA Reveals Latest USA Crude Oil Production Forecast

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million barrels per day across 2025 and 2026. million barrels per day in 2024. million barrels per day in the third quarter of this year, 13.43 million barrels per day in the fourth quarter, 13.42 million barrels per day in the first quarter of 2026, 13.48 million barrels per day in the second quarter, 13.33

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Biggest U.S. oil stockpile drop in a year shows tightening market

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million barrels in the week through June 13, the steepest slide since late June 2024, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Stockpiles there are now the lowest since December 2023. Robust exports, lower imports and crude inputs just shy of 17 million barrels per day have conspired to cause a massive draw to U.S.

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US withdrew oil from strategic reserve last week for first time since 2023, EIA shows

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The United States withdrew oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve for the first time last week since December 2023, data from the Energy Information Administration showed on Wednesday. 300,000 barrels of crude oil were taken out of the reserve last week, the data showed.