- Oil is lower, around $82.78, after jumping more than $2 yesterday (As of 8:20AM)
- EIA data released yesterday showed US crude storage declining for a third consecutive week and falling to the lowest level since February
- In Canada, wildfires are again threatening oil sands production
- WTI’s discount to Brent is currently the smallest since last October
- OPEC delegates see no change to supply plan (BBG)
- The next OPEC+ monitoring meeting next month is expected to end without any changes to the group’s plan to gradually bring 2.2 MMBbl/d of supply back to the market starting in October
- Rystad Energy said, “OPEC+ will likely wait and see if the much-anticipated demand increase this summer materializes before taking any decision on production”
- If demand fails to materialize as expected, OPEC countries may be unable to bring their voluntary production cuts back without leading to oversupplied market conditions
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