The Global benchmark Brent was at $36.67 per barrel, virtually unchanged from its last settlement but less than a dollar away from an 11-year low hit earlier in December. It amounted to between half a million to two million barrels a day. But on Tuesday, benchmark USA crude rose 33 cents to $37.14 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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To make the situation more complicated, Iran is also expected to ramp up its oil exports after Western sanctions against its energy section are lifted next year as part of a deal reached in July.
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But on a global level, traders and analysts said the global oil glut would persist into 2016.
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At 1300 GMT in London, Brent North Sea crude for delivery in February was up 12 cents at $36.74 a barrel.
USA gasoline futures slid about 2 percent as the sell-off extended to refined oil products as well, although heating oil rebounded on expectations of colder weather. With the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) member countries, and non-OPEC producers, such as Russian Federation and United States, refusing to lower production levels, expectations of a disappointing economic growth worldwide exacerbates fears of an oversupply in the market persisting through the foreseeable future.
“We’ll keep on being moved by the oil price”, said Chihiro Ohta, general manager of investment information at SMBC Nikko Securities.
US crude futures CLc1 began Asian trading under pressure, and were last down 1.7 percent at $37.23.
“The oil prices in the next year (2016) will fluctuate between $35 to $50, so Iran is not anxious about a fall of its oil income”, Mehdi Asali was quoted as saying by the oil ministry’s news agency, SHANA on Wednesday.
Singapore-based Phillip Futures said on Monday that it expected “a quiet week ahead” with the biggest expected news for energy markets likely coming from US inventory data to be published on Wednesday and Thursday.
“We do not often see Japanese data impact oil prices this much”. While it has fallen from a peak of 9.6 million barrels a day in April, output has remained stable at around 9.1 million barrels a day in recent months. The markets opened lower after a preliminary report from the American Petroleum Institute showed stores of crude rising on Tuesday.
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Ali al-Naimi, oil minister of OPEC leader Saudi Arabia, said the kingdom will not limit production, the Wall Street Journal reported.
