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The emergence of new coronavirus hot spots particularly in Europe also put pressure on fuel demand and oil prices, analysts said, while a weak dollar lent some support.<\/p>\n
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\u201cClearly the market is not tightening as quickly as initially anticipated. Demand is taking longer than expected to get back to normal levels,\u201d ING Group said.<\/p>\n
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Market sentiment soured after the United States and China delayed a review of their Phase 1 trade deal initially slated for Saturday, citing scheduling conflicts.<\/p>\n
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However, in a positive signal, Chinese state-owned oil firms have tentatively booked tankers to transport at least 20 million barrels of U.S. crude for August and September.<\/p>\n
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Investors are also looking for more clues on future supply from a meeting this week of a panel representing ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, a group known as OPEC+.<\/p>\n
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The Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) monitors OPEC+ production curbs agreed earlier this year. Last month, the JMMC recommended that cuts be eased from Aug. 1 to about 7.7 million barrels per day (bpd) from a reduction of 9.7 million bpd since May, in line with an earlier OPEC+ agreement.<\/p>\n
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Iran\u2019s oil minister, Bijan Zanganeh said \u201cOPEC\u2019s performance has been successful because the price of oil has risen from $16 in May to around $45 and has stabilized.\u201d<\/p>\n
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ANZ estimated that demand had risen 8 million barrels per day (bpd) over the past four months to 88 million bpd \u2013 still 13 million bpd below this time last year.<\/p>\n
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In the United States the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating last week remained anchored at a record low for a 15th week, even as higher oil prices prompt some producers to start drilling again.<\/p>\n
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Reporting by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, additional reporting by Florence Tan in Singapore; editing by David Evans<\/em><\/p>\n gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The emergence of new coronavirus hot spots particularly in Europe also put pressure on fuel demand and oil prices, analysts said, while a weak dollar lent some support. \u201cClearly the market is not tightening as quickly as initially anticipated. Demand is taking longer than expected to get back to normal levels,\u201d ING Group said. Market …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1069,3226,1218,4408,166,1928],"class_list":["post-15724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-american","tag-boost","tag-chinas","tag-imports","tag-oil","tag-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/15725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}