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voda 29 september 2015 21:10

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UAE open to meet any oil demand from Japan - Mr Mansouri

Mr Sultan bin Saeed Al-Mansouri, the Gulf Opec member's economy minister, said that the United Arab Emirates is open to meeting any demand for oil from Japan.

This comes on the heels of the minister saying last month that the UAE was open to meeting Indian oil demand, an indication that it plans to keep output levels high to defend its market share in Asia against US shale oil and other higher-cost supply sources.

Asked whether UAE was ready to provide any demand for oil from Japan, the world's No.3 oil user, Mr Mansouri said that ‘Definitely.’ He was speaking after meeting Japan's minister of economy, trade and industry, Mr Yoichi Miyazawa, in Tokyo.

He said that "UAE always has been meeting the demand of the Japanese requirement in oil for a long time. And we'll always continue to do that."

Mr Mansouri said that there was no agreement on oil projects/investments or oil storage with Japan because he is not responsible for energy matters.

UAE ranks as the second-biggest crude oil exporter to Japan after Saudi Arabia, and provided around 840,000 barrels per day or 24.4% of the country's total imports last year.

Source : Reuters

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voda 29 september 2015 21:12

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Iranian condensate exports in September at 2015 high - Sources

Two sources familiar with the matter said that Iran's condensate exports in September hit the highest monthly total so far this year, after its top client China resumed buying of the ultra-light crude for the first time in 6 months.

The sales come as Mr Xi Jinping, President of China, said his Iranian counterpart Mr Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the United Nations this week that he wanted to prioritise its energy and financial cooperation with Tehran ahead of a potential lifting of sanctions.

Iran has had to store tens of millions of barrels of oil, mostly condensate from its South Pars gas fields, onboard ships due to a drop in China's demand over the summer and an outage at a major plant.

One of the sources with direct knowledge of supplies to China said that "Unlike crude oil that could be cut back, Iran has had to keep South Pars pumping to supply its local gas market."

Condensate is a by-product of natural gas production.

The source said that China's Unipec, the trading arm of Asia's largest refiner, Sinopec, imported about one million barrels of Iranian condensate in September, with the same monthly amount due to be shipped through to March.

A Sinopec spokesman declined to comment, citing business confidentiality.

A second source with knowledge of the data said that Iranian condensate exports in September were around 210,000 barrels per day, topping 200,000 barrel per day for the first time this year after China resumed imports.

The source said that other buyers included Japan, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates and Poland.

According to the sources, Iran has the capacity to export about 500,000 barrel per day of condensate, but buyers took about 180,000 barrel per day on average in the first nine months this year.

Sanctions on Iranian oil exports are expected to ease only next year as Tehran has to first comply with terms set out in a July agreement with world powers on its nuclear programme but the fight for market share in Asia among OPEC producers has already intensified.

Source : Reuters

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voda 29 september 2015 21:14

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IEA chief Mr Birol expects USD 45 oil for a long time

Mr Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, expects the price of crude oil to stay at around USD 45 a barrel for a long time.

When asked by Austrian newspaper Kurier whether prices would ever exceed USD 100 a barrel again, Mr Birol said that "I can only say that the oil price will remain low for some quarters."

He said that "USD 45 a barrel will remain the price for a long time."

Benchmark Brent crude futures were unchanged at USD 47.34 a barrel at 0615 GMT, while WTI crude futures were down 2 cents at USD 44.41 per barrel.

Mr Birol said that "Cheap oil is causing oil companies big problems. This year, they have reduced their investments by a fifth. Never in the history of these companies has there been an annual reduction as strong as this year."

Source : Reuters

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voda 29 september 2015 21:15

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Russian oil output could fall 5pct to 10pct if prices low for years

Mr Arkady Dvorkovich, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, said the Reuters Russian Investment Summit that Russian oil production could fall by up to 10 percent if world prices stay consistently low for a long period.

But he said that it was unlikely that prices would drop below their current level, of around USD 48 per barrel, for a sustained period because it was not in the interests of most oil producers to endure low prices for more than 2 years.

Mr Dvorkovich said at the summit, held in the Reuters office in Moscow, that "We calculate the budget based on a price of $50 a barrel."

He said that "If prices remain at a low level for a very long time, then a reduction in production of 5% to 10% is entirely possible, that is if the prices stay at a low level for several years."

He said that the government would not take artificial steps to reduce output, but that a reduction would be the natural consequence of low prices for oil companies' investment plans.

Despite a sharp fall in prices, Russia has refused to cut production. It has instead maintained and even increased crude output, putting up with low prices in the hope it can increase its own share in the world oil market at the expense of others who cut back their output.

Asked about the prospect of a further fall in oil prices, Mr Dvorkovich said that "Low prices for an extended time are not in the interests of the majority of producing countries, therefore that scenario is unlikely. We understand that some people can wait under low prices, some for one year, others for 2 but we don't see countries that want to live with low prices for more than two years."

He said that Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil producer, could technically afford to endure low prices for longer, but that even it would have to cut back investment in new production, threatening its position as market leader in the long term.

Even if Saudi Arabia held out, in the meantime other countries would be forced to cut production, Mr Dvorkovich said, pushing prices back up again before Russia reached the point where it too would have to cut.

Source : Reuters

voda 29 september 2015 21:16

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Oil prices shackled at 'painful' lows - Report

The Week said that oil prices are not moving upwards in fact, they lost ground again yesterday. This is despite the fact that production, at least in the US, has fallen sharply from its previous record highs as the brutal price decline starts to bite. As a result, more and more traders are now coming round to the 'lower for longer' view.

Mr Eric Nuttall, portfolio manager at Sprott Asset Management, takes an optimistic view. He said that he would have thought [prices] would be higher, with the data points, but maybe people need another month or two of output falls.

A more pessimistic, some might say realistic, analysis is offered by Mr David Zusman, the chief investment officer at Talara Capital Management, who said the Wall Street Journal that the market is still struggling with a lot of inventory, especially ahead of a potential return of Iranian exports. He said that rebalancing doesn’t happen overnight, it takes a year or two.

Oil now seems to be caught in a narrow range. International benchmark Brent crude fell back below USD 48. Hedge funds and other investors are broadly betting the worst of the oversupply is priced in and that oil prices will not return to the lows of USD 42 seen in August.

But USD 50 seems to be a tough ceiling to crack and most analysts are predicting prices will be rooted near this level well into next year.

At this level much production around the world is unprofitable and this is posing a significant challenge to the oil majors.

Writing in the Financial Times, King's College professor and former BP executive Mr Nick Butler warned that the decision by Shell to abandon its costly arctic drilling in the face of falling prices emphasised the existential threat currently facing exploration companies. Most are burning through their identified reserves quicker than they are finding new ones or at least new ones that it might be economically viable to develop.

Mr Butler said that "The Arctic debacle is a salutary reminder to oil majors that their old business model is reaching the end of its life. Change might mean a different energy mix and taking the lead in the global transition away from hydrocarbons. Or it might mean accepting new relationships with the state-owned companies that control the world’s remaining resources."

It’s a critical moment, he says, for oil companies around the world. Only one thing is certain the oil majors will have to change or accept decline.

Source : The Week

voda 29 september 2015 21:16

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Ending ban on US oil export and easing gas barriers a key to economic growth

The Associated Press reported that republican presidential candidate Mr Jeb Bush said ending the ban on US oil exports and easing restrictions on natural gas exports will unleash the nation's economy.

The former Florida governor is calling for ending the 1970s-era law prohibiting the US from exporting crude oil at a time when domestic petroleum production has grown rapidly over the past decade.

Calling it a ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity’ Mr Bush says in a piece posted today on the website Medium that reversing the export ban and widening US natural gas markets would benefit US consumers with lower energy costs, create a new manufacturing sector and generally fuel more rapid growth in the nation's economy.

Mr Bush is scheduled to discuss the plan at Rice Energy near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday.

Mr Bush said, according to provisions of the energy plan provided to The Associated Press, that "More domestic energy leads to more jobs, higher wages, lower gas prices, and smaller electricity bills. In short, it means more money in people's pockets, allowing them more freedom to make more choices for themselves and their children."

He has long said that opening domestic energy production is a key to sustained economic growth.

Once the presumed front-runner in the large Republican presidential candidate field, Bush now is fighting for traction among more than a dozen GOP rivals led by billionaire Mr Donald Trump. The billionaire real estate mogul has been slower to introduce policy as he campaigns for the White House, although he unveiled a proposal to overhaul tax-policy on Monday.

The energy proposals not only could help the wonkish Mr Bush take the policy mantle, it provides an opportunity to again take aim at Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, who leads in national preference polls for her party's presidential nomination.

Source : The Associated Press

voda 29 september 2015 21:19

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OPEC focuses on rival mega projects - Sources

Reuters reported that after almost a year of painfully low oil prices, OPEC members are beginning to believe they are winning against upstart US shale producers in a short-term market share contest.

Yet insiders and experts say OPEC is looking for a longer-lasting impact on other high-cost production oil field plans, many in deep oceans, with bigger time scales, even if that means a period of cheap oil prices lasting for years.

Privately, OPEC's core Gulf members say they have resigned themselves to the idea that the US shale industry's high-tech flexibility means it will respond quickly when prices start rising again, making the US the new swing producer in world oil, the role held for so long by Saudi Arabia.

An OPEC delegate from a Gulf oil producer said that "The oil surplus is slowly being drawn from the market. US oil production is expected to fall to less than 9 million barrels per day by the end of this year or early next year. But there is one point that no one is looking at which is the delay in the longer-term oil projects, these are 4-5 year projects. The postponement of these projects will impact the overall supply in the market."

The short investment cycle of US shale, where it takes about few months before returns are seen, make it the most sensitive to oil price fluctuation -- either way.

OPEC sources said that thus the spike in oil prices in June where US crude was trading above USD 60 a barrel drew out more shale output but the price drop in August will reverse that.

The sources said that and even if rising prices pushed supplies up again, in the long run, higher production from shale is expected to be offset by lower production from conventional high-cost offshore projects from countries such as Brazil and Mexico.

Mr Yasser Elguindi of economic consultants Medley Global Advisors said that "Shale will be a new swing producer of sorts. Because of its shorter investment cycle, when prices fall shale producers will be the ones to cut first, but likewise when prices go up, they will also be the first to bring up production.

He said that "This complicates life for those who are looking at investments that have a 2-5 year investment horizon. But again, the idea is to find the price level that slows down the rate of growth considerably to something more sustainable and that takes more than 2 to 3 quarters of lower oil prices."

Source : Reuters

voda 29 september 2015 21:19

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Oil exports restart from northern Iraq to Turkey - Report

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The Kurdistan region's ministry of natural resources said that oil exports from northern Iraq to Turkey have restarted after the pipeline was sabotaged earlier this week.

The flow of crude resumed on Friday following an outage of around nine hours, it said.

Source : Reuters

voda 29 september 2015 21:20

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Kuwait sees no oil summit before OPEC meeting

Mr Ali Al-Omair, Oil Minister of Kuwait, said that he does not believe there would be a summit of oil producing countries before OPEC's next meeting in December.

The minister of the Gulf OPEC member told reporters that the problem was that countries from outside OPEC are not committed to what they would offer to stabilise prices.

He was responding to a question on a Venezuelan proposal for an OPEC and non-OPEC heads of states summit. Cash-strapped Venezuela has for months been pushing for an emergency OPEC meeting with Russia to stem the tumble in prices.

Source : Reuters

voda 29 september 2015 21:21

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Oil traders may look to the sea for profit amid prices collapse

Bloomberg reported that while traders are already cashing in on the surplus by housing oil in onshore tanks across the globe, including on the tiny Caribbean island of St. Lucia, expanding the storage to tankers at sea may near a point where it becomes profitable, according to Citigroup Inc, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and IHS Maritime & Trade. A structure called contango, when the price of a commodity to be delivered in the future is higher than if it was sold today, has been moving in the right direction.

Vessels laden with oil, parked offshore from Singapore to the Gulf of Mexico, became a feature after the global financial crisis as the widening contango allowed traders with access to storage to lock in a profit. As the spread expanded again amid a global supply glut, tanker owner Frontline Ltd. fielded inquiries last month about options to house crude at sea.

Mr Frode Moerkedal, an analyst at Clarksons Platou Securities, said that “Even though the contango is not wide enough yet, it could become so if OPEC continues to overproduce relative to demand.”

According to Mr Andrew Scorer, an analyst at IHS Maritime & Trade, with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries already pumping above its 30-million-barrel-a-day quota for more than a year, Iran’s plans to boost output after sanctions are lifted threaten to worsen the oversupply a market condition that typically deepens a contango. That could see more oil stored at sea during the fourth quarter.

The profit opportunity requires a little further steepening of the Brent forward curve at current freight rates, Goldman said in a September 11th report. The widening spread is bringing the potential of floating storage back into play, Citigroup said this month.

The spread would need to widen to $4 a barrel during a three-month period for storage to be viable, according to estimates by E.A. Gibson Shipbrokers Ltd. on Sept. 23. Brent crude for November settlement was at a $2.08 discount to the February contract on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange at 11:52 a.m. in Hong Kong.

Mr Nikhil Jain, an analyst at Drewry Shipping in New Delhi, said that “Once Iranian crude is out in the market, then it might start affecting spot prices for crude oil, which could eventually open up the contango again. The spread during a 3 month period needs to reach about USD 3.30 a barrel before floating storage would work.”

As Frontline takes calls on storage options, Mr Paddy Rodgers, the CEO of Euronav, one of the world’s largest owners of oil supertankers, sees crude being housed at sea over the next four to five months. The increase in floating storage may also tighten the shipping market and boost freight rates.

Source : Bloomberg

voda 29 september 2015 21:45

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Bahrainisation success for oil sector firms - Noga

According to figures released by the National Oil and Gas Authority, the number of employees working in the oil sector reached 4,302, of whom 3,422 are Bahrainis.

Bahrain Petroleum Company achieved a Bahrainisation rate of 78.1% at the end of December last year, with 1,865 citizens out of an overall 2,388 workers. The rate of Bahrainisation at GPIC averaged 83.4% with 443 citizens out of 531 employees.

Source : Trade Arabia

voda 29 september 2015 21:46

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Iran earns more from tax than oil for first time in almost 50 years

The Guardian reported that the Iranian government is earning more from tax than oil for the first time in almost half a century as the country shifts its traditional reliance on crude to taxation revenues in the face of plummeting oil prices.

According to Mr Ali Kardor, the deputy MD of the national Iranian oil company, President Mr Hassan Rouhani’s economic strategy is to significantly reduce the government’s dependency on oil and instead collect tax more systematically.

He said on the sidelines of the second Europe-Iran forum in Geneva that “For the first time in 50 years, the government’s share of the oil revenue is less than what it is earning from tax, including VAT. Only around 10% of Iran’s GDP is currently dependent on oil.” Almost 20% of oil income goes into a sovereign wealth fund, which is reserved for development purposes.

Iran’s oil revenue took a heavy toll in recent years from the oil embargo imposed on Tehran by the EU and US over its nuclear programme and latterly because of falling global crude prices. Sanctions are expected to be lifted when the UN nuclear watchdog verifies Tehran has taken the necessary measures to roll back its nuclear activities as outlined under the landmark nuclear agreement struck in July. Mr Rouhani said last week that could be as early as January.

Mr Kardor said that “NIOC would offer a set of new lucrative contracts to foreign investors, worth more than USD 100 billio, for about 45 potential onshore and offshore fields by November. We currently produce 3m barrels of oil a day, of which 1.3 m are exported but we expect that to increase to 2.3m in May or June next year.”

Mr Hossein Rasam, the director of Rastah Idealogistics and former Iran adviser to FCO, said that Tehran had taken important steps in recent years to rectify loopholes and move toward tax revenues rather than rely on oil wealth. It was not clear, he said, if Iran could maintain the equation should its crude sales increase or oil prices go up in the future.

He said that “Under advice from the IMF, Iran began to redefine taxation in the early 1990s, but genuine efforts only started under the reformist president Mohammad Khatami and continued under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, when VAT was first introduced. Bearing fruit just now, Iran is pursuing tax collection more seriously and putting itself in order to rely more on taxation.”

He said that years of financial stringency under international sanctions have contributed in forcing Iran to find a way to reduce its reliance on crude. This is a positive development for Iran, for the more tax people pay, the more accountability and responsibility they will demand from the government.

Source : The Guardian

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[verwijderd] 30 september 2015 07:33

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Een goede taxatie is munt stabiliserend. Dus dat goede nieuws.
Schulden uitschrijven is hoogste destabiliserend voor een munt.
Vergelijk je Iran met Nederland, dan staat Iran succesvol ver boven Nederland, zekerlijk op kort en medium termijn.

voda 30 september 2015 16:35

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Laagste gemiddelde olieprijs sinds begin 2009

Gepubliceerd op 30 sep 2015 om 08:49 | Views: 2.801

NEW YORK (AFN/BLOOMBERG) - Olie werd in het derde kwartaal verhandeld voor een gemiddelde prijs van 46,50 dollar per vat. Dat is het laagste niveau sinds de eerste drie maanden van 2009. Handelaren verwachten dat de prijzen woensdag, de laatste dag van het derde kwartaal, onder druk blijven door aanzwellende Amerikaanse voorraden en een oplopende productie bij de OPEC.

Sinds een piek in juni is het zwarte goud ruim een kwart goedkoper geworden, terwijl op jaarbasis sprake is van een ruime halvering. De voorraden in de VS liggen ondanks productiebeperkingen in de afgelopen maanden bijna 100 miljoen vaten boven het vijfjarige gemiddelde voor deze tijd van het jaar.

Oliekartel OPEC, dat vanwege een strijd om marktaandeel met Amerikaanse producenten weigerde zijn productieplafond te verlagen, pompt al 15 maanden meer uit de grond dan de op papier geldende limiet van 30 miljoen vaten per dag.

voda 30 september 2015 17:01

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Olievoorraden VS lopen weer flink op

AMSTERDAM (Dow Jones)--De olievoorraden in de Verenigde Staten zijn vorige week veel sterker dan verwacht gestegen, blijkt woensdagmiddag uit cijfers van de Amerikaanse Energy Information Administration.

De voorraden ruwe olie zijn in de week eindigend op 25 september met bijna 4 miljoen vaten gestegen tot een totaal van 457,9 miljoen. Analisten rekenden op een stijging met 0,3 miljoen vaten.

Ook de benzinevoorraden stegen veel meer dan verwacht. Deze namen toe met bijna 3,3 miljoen vaten, waar een stijging met 0,2 miljoen vaten werd voorzien. Het totaal kwam uit op 222,0 miljoen vaten.

De voorraden stookolie en diesel kwamen uit op een totaal van 151,6 miljoen. De daling van 0,3 miljoen vaten was kleiner dan de afname met 0,8 miljoen die werd verwacht.

De capaciteitsbenutting kwam uit op 89,8%, tegen 90,9% een week eerder, waar werd gerekend op 90,2%.

Dow Jones Nieuwsdienst; +31-20-5715200; amsterdam@dowjones.com

[verwijderd] 30 september 2015 19:08

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........Handelaren verwachten dat de prijzen woensdag, de laatste dag van het derde kwartaal, onder druk blijven door aanzwellende Amerikaanse voorraden en een oplopende productie bij de OPEC.....

Geotechnisch zit Amerikaanse olie productie op 1/2 tijd, dat is; ze moeten investeren om niet de controle over de dollar en olie prijs te behouden. Normaal twee jaar en we zitten al op 1 jaar niks doen. De Amerikaanse Moeslim staat Saudi Arabia met Mekka doet ook weinig aan garanderen van huidige productie zonder investering.

Kunnen we naar 20 dollar/euro vaatje gaan, ja of nee! Hoe harder je schreeuwt, ja natuurlijk. Kan je blijven pijp luchten, energetisch? richting nul. Kort lang termijn vaatje olie stabiel. Maar wat als de dollar/euro is een nat lapje? Wat is een vaatje olie/energie waard als je wakker wordt? Probleem = hoeveel is een vaatje waard in goud of man-uren werken?

Gaut als het in je broekzak zit, dan wil je het niet hebben dat dat de prijs omhoog of omlaag gaat anders staat je te dingen van je linker tegen je rechterhand in je eigen broek; dus goud moet stabiel blijven.

Dus handelaar technisch en referentie vergelijkingen moet de prijs van olie altijd stabiel zijn, maar hoe meet je dit?

Zoeken naar de juiste munt?

voda 1 oktober 2015 16:27

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Oliebedrijf Repsol schrapt 1500 banen

Gepubliceerd op 1 okt 2015 om 12:49 | Views: 1.383

MADRID (AFN/BLOOMBERG) - Het Spaanse olie- en gasconcern Repsol gaat 1500 banen schrappen om kosten te besparen. Dat liet het grootste oliebedrijf van Spanje donderdag weten.

Het gaat om circa 6 procent van het totale personeelsbestand dat binnen drie jaar op straat zal komen te staan. De ingreep moeten helpen om geld te besparen om zo schulden af te kunnen lossen na de overname van het Canadese Talisman Energy voor 13 miljard dollar eerder dit jaar. Repsol is ook bezig onderdelen te verkopen om zo te helpen de schuld te verlagen.

voda 1 oktober 2015 21:43

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Olieprijs sluit lager

AMSTERDAM (Dow Jones)--De prijs voor een vat ruwe olie is donderdag lager gesloten, vanwege de aanhoudende zorgen over het wereldwijd overaanbod.

De olievoorraden in de Verenigde Staten zijn vorige week veel sterker dan verwacht gestegen, zo bleek woensdag uit cijfers van de Amerikaanse Energy Information Administration.

De voorraden ruwe olie zijn in de week eindigend op 25 september met bijna 4 miljoen vaten gestegen tot een totaal van 457,9 miljoen. Analisten rekenden op een stijging met 0,3 miljoen vaten.

De olieprijs verloor in het derde kwartaal pakweg een vijfde van zijn waarde, vanwege zorgen over een vertraging van de economische groei in China. China is 's werelds tweede grootste olieconsument.

Steun was er daarentegen uit beter dan verwachte macro-data uit China. Hoewel de krimp binnen de Chinese industrie ook in september aanhield, kwam de index iets beter uit dan verwacht. De officiele index kwam uit op 49,8, van 49,7 in augustus, wat iets beter was dan verwacht. De index van Caixin daalde in september juist iets sterker dan een maand eerder, naar 47,2, van 47,3.

Daarnaast richtte de markt zijn focus op Syrie, nadat Rusland woensdag zijn eerste luchtaanvallen lanceerde. De interventie leidt tot extra onzekerheid in het Midden-Oosten, 's werelds grootste olieproducerende regio.

"De militaire interventie van Rusland in het Syrische conflict heeft de geopolitieke risico's doen toenemen, wat een steun in de rug betekent voor de olieprijzen", stellen analisten van Commerzbank.

De novemberfuture voor een vat ruwe olie sloot donderdag op de New York Mercantile Exchange $0,35 hoger op $44,74.

- Door Patrick Buis; Dow Jones Nieuwsdienst; +31 20 571 52 00; patrick.buis@wsj.com

voda 2 oktober 2015 18:28

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Olieproductie Rusland hoogst sinds Sovjetunie

Gepubliceerd op 2 okt 2015 om 09:25

MOSKOU (AFN/BLOOMBERG) - Rusland trekt zich weinig aan van de lage olieprijzen en heeft in september zijn olieproductie verhoogd naar het hoogste niveau sinds de val van de Sovjetunie. Dat blijkt uit cijfers die het Russische energieministerie vrijdag heeft gepubliceerd.

De olieproductie kwam vorige maand uit op 10,74 miljoen vaten (van 159 liter) per dag. Dat is 1 procent meer dan een jaar eerder en hoger dan het vorige record dat in juni werd neergezet. De export van Russische olie ging met 3,4 procent omhoog op jaarbasis, naar 5,27 miljoen vaten per dag.

Oliebedrijven in Rusland zijn dankzij de goedkope roebel minder geld kwijt aan productie.

voda 2 oktober 2015 21:26

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Olieprijs sluit hoger

AMSTERDAM (Dow Jones)--De prijs voor een vat ruwe olie is vrijdag hoger gesloten, nadat uit cijfers van Baker Hughes bleek dat Amerikaanse olieproducenten het aantal operationele booreilanden in de VS sterk hebben verminderd, het grootste aantal in vijf maanden.

Het aantal operationele booreilanden in de VS noteert momenteel op 614, het laagste niveau sinds augustus 2010.

De data leidden tot een herstel van de olieprijs, na eerdere verliezen vanwege een tegenvallend Amerikaans banenrapport.

Uit de data van het Amerikaans ministerie van arbeid bleek dat de werkgelegenheid in de VS in september minder sterk is gestegen dan verwacht, waarmee de zwakke trend van de afgelopen maanden lijkt door te zetten. Direct na publicatie van de data leverde olie eerdere winsten in.

Het aantal banen nam vorige maand met 142.000 toe, ruim onder de 200.000 die werd voorzien. De werkloosheid bleef conform de verwachting stabiel op 5,1%. De data roepen de vraag op of de Federal Reserve de rente dit jaar nog wel kan verhogen.

Echter, slecht nieuws over de arbeidsmarkt betekende de afgelopen maanden goed nieuws voor olie en andere grondstoffen, aangezien dit kan leiden tot een vertraging van de verhoging van de rente.

"Ik denk dat de data de olieprijs steunen", aldus Gene McGillian van Tradition Energy.

De olieprijs verloor in het derde kwartaal pakweg een vijfde van zijn waarde, vanwege zorgen over een vertraging van de economische groei in China. China is 's werelds tweede grootste olieconsument.

De olieprijs zag zich vrijdag daarentegen gesteund door de Russische luchtaanvallen in Syrie, die woensdag aanvingen. De campagne kan drie tot vier maanden duren, zei een Russische beleidsmaker vrijdag. De interventie leidt tot oplopende geopolitieke onzekerheid in het olierijke Midden-Oosten.

De novemberfuture voor een vat ruwe olie sloot vrijdag op de New York Mercantile Exchange $0,80 hoger op $45,54.

- Door Patrick Buis; Dow Jones Nieuwsdienst; +31 20 571 52 00; patrick.buis@wsj.com

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