Moscow. May 10. INTERFAX.RU – Oil prices are rising on Tuesday on fears occurrence of disruptions in supply of raw material from Nigeria and Libya, reports Bloomberg
The price of Brent crude oil futures for July on London’s ICE Futures exchange to 18:07 on. Moscow was $ 44.92 per barrel, up $ 1.29 (2.96%) higher than the previous session. During the session, the futures price rose to $ 45.14 per barrel.
The cost of the June futures contract for WTI crude oil in the course of trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) has increased by this time to $ 0.74 ( 1,7%) – up to $ 44.18 per barrel
The union of workers of the oil industry in Nigeria reported that Chevron and Shell began evacuating employees from the fields in the country because of fears for their safety <.. / p>
last week the company reduced production in Nigeria by about 90 thousand. barrels per day due to armed attacks on the oil infrastructure.
Meanwhile, the Libyan oil company National oil Corp. He said it would be forced to suspend production at the fields, providing the bulk of the export country of oil, during the month when the rebels will not remove the blockade of the port of Marsa al-Hariga.
At the same time, Canadian companies have stopped production in the oil sands region due to forest fires, plan to resume operations. As a result of the suspension of operations, the total volume of oil production in the region last week was below the normal level by an average of 1 million b / d, accounting for about 40% of production in the area of oil sands in Canada.
“The market got support due to the reduction of oil production in Canada, as well as a growing threat to companies operations in Nigeria, – said a senior analyst and broker Tradition Energy wife MakDzhillian -.. Fundamental for the oil market factors remain weak Had it not been the expected shortages of oil supply and production decline USA, price would be lower. “
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