Daily Energy Report
Saudi oil exports are declining, IEA raises oil outlook, India’s fuel prices, Shell weakens emissions cut, Brazil diversifies power, Climate alarmism, and more.
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1- Russia will export more crude as Ukraine hit its refineries with drones. We have been telling our readers this for few weeks. Here is today’s news: Russia expects crude oil exports to rise due to refinery outages.
2- The EIA revised up its growth of global oil demand. We have been telling our readers since last December that the IEA’s number was too low and the IEA has no choice but to raise its estimate as 2024 unfolds. Here is today’s news: IEA boosts forecasts for global oil demand in 2024 once again.
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Chart of the Day: Saudi Crude Oil Exports are Declining
Summary
Figure (1) above shows trends in Saudi weekly crude oil exports since the beginning of 2019. The most important point is the decline in recent weeks to levels that existed only in early 2021 after OPEC+ agreed to cut production by 9.7 mb/d.