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Oil surges amid OPEC caution to offset Iran sanctions

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Updated: Tue, Apr 23, 2019
11:45 pm
Reuters
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Oil prices hit their highest in about six months on Tuesday as sources said Gulf OPEC members were ready to raise output only if there was demand before offsetting any shortfall following a U.S. decision to end waivers for buyers of Iranian crude.

Output in Saudi Arabia, the world`s top oil exporter and de facto leader of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, will rise in May, but that it is not related to Iran sanctions, the sources said.

The sources said Saudi production in May will also still within its production target under a OPEC supply-cutting deal, which has led global supply cuts since the start of the year aimed at propping up crude prices. The group is set to meet in June to discuss output policy.

The United States on Monday demanded that buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases by May 1 or face sanctions, ending six months of waivers which allowed Iran`s eight biggest buyers, most of them in Asia, to continue importing limited volumes.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he was confident that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will fulfil their pledges to make up the difference in oil markets, a U.S. official told reporters Monday.

"The Saudis aren`t rushing to fill what could be a substantial supply gap in the market," said John Kilduff, a partner at Again Capital Management LLC. "The market has gotten tight globally over the course of the last several months, primarily because of the efforts of Saudi Arabia."

U.S. crude futures rose 69 cents a barrel, or 1 percent, to $66.24 by 1:52 p.m. EDT (1752 GMT), after earlier hitting $66.60, the highest since Oct. 31.

Brent crude rose 31 cents a barrel to $74.35. The global benchmark earlier touched $74.73, a level not seen since Nov. 1.

Before the reimposition of sanctions last year, Iran was the fourth-largest producer among the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries at around 3 million barrels per day (bpd), but April exports have shrunk to below 1 million bpd, according to tanker data and industry sources.(GRAPHIC: Iran seaborne crude oil & condensate exports, https://tmsnrt.rs/2DE8CHt)The market structure for U.S. crude changed Monday, with the front month trading at a premium to the next month. The trend, known as backwardation, intensified on Tuesday with the largest premium since December.

Brent was also in backwardation, hitting its highest front-month premium in three weeks.

"The backwardation is indicative of what is really driving things," Again`s Kilduff said.

The premium for front-month crude shows that the immediate supply constraints are seen as time-limited, given Saudi Arabia`s ability to tap excess capacity, he said.

China, Iran`s largest customer with imports of about 585,400 bpd of crude oil last year, formally complained to Washington over the move, which a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said "will contribute to volatility in the Middle East and in the international energy market".

The move to increase pressure on Iran came amid other sanctions Washington has placed on Venezuela`s oil exports and as combat threatens to disrupt Libya`s exports.(GRAPHIC: Russian, U.S. & Saudi crude oil production, https://tmsnrt.rs/2EUHeFO)

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