Oil Pulls Back From Recent Rally Despite Iraq Tensions
2017年10月20日 - 7:48PM
Dow Jones News
By Christopher Alessi
LONDON -- Oil prices fell for a second consecutive day Friday,
coming off a three-week high earlier in the week, as investors
considered the potential impact of ongoing geopolitical risks on
global oil supply.
Brent crude, the global benchmark, fell nearly 1%, to $56.67 a
barrel on London's Intercontinental Exchange. On the New York
Mercantile Exchange, West Texas Intermediate futures were trading
down 1.15% at $50.70 a barrel.
"We've seen a fairly decent rally, but we are probably starting
to see the top end of the range," said Michael Hewson, chief market
analyst at brokerage CMC Markets UK PLC.
While oil prices are close to their highest levels seen this
year, investors are concerned that pushing prices too high could
spur U.S. crude producers to ramp up shale production, Mr. Hewson
said. That could exacerbate the global supply glut and undermine
the fragile market rebalancing underway, analysts say.
Crude prices climbed earlier in the week after clashes between
Iraqi government troops and forces from the semi-autonomous Kurdish
region disrupted some oil production and exports. Kurds voted
nearly unanimously to break away from Iraq in a controversial
independence referendum late last month.
Oil supplies that flow from Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, through
Turkey fell to around 196,000 barrels a day on Thursday, compared
with a usual supply of around 600,000 barrels a day, according to
Dutch bank ING Group.
"A prolonged disruption to this supply could tighten the oil
market in Europe," analysts at ING said.
Meanwhile, the head of the Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries said Thursday that there is "no doubt the oil
market is rebalancing at an accelerated pace." Speaking to a
gathering of oil industry executives and experts in London, OPEC
Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo insisted that cartel's plan to
cut output and rein in the global supply glut was paying off.
However, "not even a slew of supportive comments from OPEC's
secretary general succeeded in injecting a dose of bullish
impetus," Stephen Brenonck, an analyst at brokerage PVM Oil
Associates Ltd., wrote in a note Friday.
OPEC and 10 producers outside the cartel, including Russia,
first agreed late last year to cap their production at around 1.8
million barrels a day lower than peak October 2016 levels, with the
aim of alleviating global oversupply and boosting prices.
The deal was extended in May through March 2018 and a number of
participants have in recent weeks indicated a willingness to
prolong the deal through the end of next year. OPEC is set to
officially debate an extension at its next meeting in Vienna in
November.
Among refined products, Nymex reformulated gasoline blendstock
-- the benchmark gasoline contract -- was down 0.90%, at $1.60 a
gallon. ICE gasoil, a benchmark for diesel fuel, changed hands at
$517.00 a metric ton, down 1.19% from the previous settlement.
Write to Christopher Alessi at christopher.alessi@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
October 20, 2017 06:33 ET (10:33 GMT)
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