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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2023
Oil prices climb after Saudi oilfield attack, but recession worries drag

Global Economy

Reuters
19 August, 2019, 08:35 am
Last modified: 19 August, 2019, 10:53 am

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Oil prices climb after Saudi oilfield attack, but recession worries drag

US President Donald Trump and top White House officials dismissed concerns that economic growth may be faltering.

Reuters
19 August, 2019, 08:35 am
Last modified: 19 August, 2019, 10:53 am
Oil prices climb after Saudi oilfield attack, but recession worries drag

Crude oil prices rose on Monday following a weekend attack on a Saudi oil facility by Yemeni separatists, although price gains were capped by an unusually downbeat OPEC report that stoked concerns about demand growth.

Brent crude LCOc1 was up 45 cents, or 0.8%, at $59.09 a barrel at 0035 GMT,

US crude CLc1 was up 39 cents, or 0.7%, at $55.26 a barrel.

Prices rose after the drone attack by Yemen’s Houthi group on an oilfield in eastern Saudi Arabia on Saturday added to Middle East tensions. The attack caused a fire at a gas plant, but state-run Saudi Aramco said oil production was not affected.

Still, concerns about an economic recession and the impact on oil demand growth weighed on prices.

In a monthly report, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cut its forecast for global oil demand growth in 2019 by 40,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 1.10 million bpd and indicated the market will be in slight surplus in 2020.

It is rare for OPEC to give a bearish forward view on the market outlook.

US President Donald Trump and top White House officials dismissed concerns that economic growth may be faltering, saying on Sunday they saw little risk of recession and insisting their trade war with China was doing no damage to the United States.

Trump was less optimistic than his aides on striking a trade deal with China, saying that while he believed China was ready to come to an agreement, “I’m not ready to make a deal yet.”

Also weighing on prices, US energy firms this week increased the number of oil rigs operating for the first time in seven weeks despite plans by most producers to cut spending on new drilling this year.

Companies added six oil rigs in the week to Aug. 16, the biggest increase since April, bringing the total count to 770, General Electric Co’s (GE.N) Baker Hughes energy services firm said on Friday.

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