Thursday, November 10, 2011

Oil Agencies Revised Global Oil Demand Outlook

Three major oil agencies have released their latest outlooks on global oil demand. The US official DOE/EIA, based on a +3% global GDP growth assumption in 2011, expected oil demand to increase to 88.23M bpd in 2011, up +1.16M bpd or +1.3% from last year. Again, much of the gain would be driven by Chinese demand. For 2012, oil consumption will rise to 89.62M bpd, up +1.39M bpd or +1.6% from 2010, based on a downwardly revised GDP growth of +3.1%.

As per OPEC, global oil demand will rise +0.9M bpd, or +1.0%, to 87.8M bpd in 2010, and then by +1.2M bpd, or +1.4%, to 89.0M bpd in 2012. Demand in advanced economies has declined 'as a result of slowing economic momentum, particularly in the EU'. The cartel also warned that 'uncertainties in the world economic outlook for the coming year have increased due to the challenges facing the OECD economies'.

The IEA forecast global oil demand will rise +0.9M bpd, or +1.0%, to 89.8M bpd in 2010, and then by +1.3M bpd, or +1.5%, to 90.5M bpd in 2012. According to the agency, Libya's oil output was 0.35M bpd in October. The progress of resumption of oil facilities after the civil war 'is on a far faster track than initially anticipated'.


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