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IEA sees 500,000 b/d oil supply surplus in 2024

  • Mercados: Crude oil, LPG, Oil products
  • 18/01/24

The IEA today said it expects record-high oil supplies this year leaving an overhang of 500,000 b/d as demand growth slows.

In its monthly Oil Market Report (OMR), the Paris-based organisation forecast supplies to grow by 1.5mn b/d in 2024 to 103.5mn b/d, driven by record-breaking output from the US, Brazil, Guyana and Canada. Its growth projection is based on Opec+ supplies remaining broadly steady, assuming the group's extra voluntary cuts that began this month will be phased out in the second quarter of the year.

By contrast, the IEA said it anticipates 2024 demand growth of 1.24mn b/d — an increase from its previous OMR forecast for 1.06mn b/d — to 103mn b/d. It said a slowdown is already in evidence, with annual demand growth of 1.7mn b/d in the final quarter of 2023 well below the 3.2mn b/d in the second and third quarters.

The IEA's demand growth forecast remains substantially lower than that of Opec, which anticipates an increase of 2.25mn b/d to 104.4mn b/d in 2024.

Around 60pc of the demand growth this year will come from China, the IEA said, and the same proportion will be in demand for petrochemical feedstocks including LPG and naphtha. Demand in OECD countries will fall slightly in 2024, it said.

The IEA acknowledged that this time last year it underestimated demand growth for 2023, which came in at 2.3mn b/d compared with its initial projection for 1.9mn b/d. A fall in crude prices from above $90/bl in mid-October to below $75/bl by mid-December played a part in underpinning 2023 demand, it said, as did stronger than expected economic growth and an "abrupt post-lockdown rebound" in China in the first half of the year after Beijing eased Covid-19 pandemic restrictions.

"It appears that this recovery period of exceptional increases is now essentially complete and that gains will be more incremental from now on," the IEA said, noting its forecast for 2024 is "a return to the pre-pandemic growth trend".

Global inventories fell by 8.4mn bl in November to the lowest level since July 2022, the IEA said, driven by a 24.6mn bl draw on oil product stocks. Crude in storage rose by 16.2mn bl. It said preliminary data show an inventory rise in December, driven by an increase in oil on water.

This latter category may rise further given the many oil tankers now avoiding the Red Sea in both directions, adding time to journeys. The IEA said that if current diversion trends continue, the amount of oil heading through the Suez Canal could be almost two-thirds lower by the end of January than levels prior to the Israel-Hamas conflict.


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