- QatarEnergy selects Nakilat to own and operate 25 conventional LNG vessels
- The joint development of the Dorra field between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait is pending the demarcation of the border with Iran
- Minister of Energy reaffirms the UAE’s commitment to adopting clean energy and supporting the Paris Agreement
- The new Hassi Messaoud refinery enjoys the support of the government and President Tebboune
- Increasing electrical interconnection capacities to export electricity beyond borders
- Qatar Energy stops sending liquefied gas tankers through the Red Sea for security reasons
- The inauguration of the Duqm Refinery, the largest joint Gulf project in the refinery sector
- Saudi oil exports are faltering due to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
- Algeria to host and chair the Gas Exporting Countries Forum summit (February 29 to March 2, 2024)
- Egypt Energy Conference and Exhibition 2024 gives a strong impetus to the global energy dialogue
“The next stage is exceptional in the oil industry”
“The next stage is an exceptional stage in the oil industry, and the geopolitics will have a more important factor in the markets in the coming period,” said Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency.
He added that the United States continues to expand Oil Shale production and to become an oil exporter from 2021.
Thanks to shale oil, the United States, which was traditionally oil-importing country, will become one of its major producers in the world. This new situation will disrupt world oil markets, causing markets oversupply, and consequently the price of crude oil will fall.
By 2024, the United States will account for 70% of the world’s oil production growth, and output from outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will rise by 6.1 million b/d to 68.7 million b/d, he said. On the other hand, a decrease in OPEC production is expected between 2019 and 2020 before it rises moderately to 32 million b/d in 2024.
On the other hand, as Saudi Arabia seeks to balance the oversupplied market, it plans to cut its crude exports in April 2019 to less than 7 million bpd and to keep its production at less than 10 million b/d.
