How Volatile Is Crude Pricing Right Now?
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Khalid Al Mansoor
- . August 10, 2022
- . Update: August 11, 2022 12:34 pm
Russia–Crude prices are again volatile as a possible nuclear deal with Iran in on the anvil. Oil prices have said to have fallen due to crude inventory by the US being on the increase and Russia resuming pipeline exports to Europe. This has indeed eased supply concerns in a tight market.
After the Gazprom skirmish, Russia has finally resumed the supply of oil through the southern Druzhba pipeline on Wednesday evening, Russian state-owned news agency has confirmed. The pipeline operator here is Transneft.
Nuclear deal talks in Vienna have concluded, with the EU suggesting a final text will now be put forward for the US and Iran to either agree upon or reject.
Economists can see that if an agreement is reached, it would “unlock the Iranian oil and give a certain relief to the tight-supply market.” Current forecasts still point to global demand exceeding pre-Covid levels by next year, while suppliers continue to struggle under existing constraints. Still, the risk is that major economies instead experience a deeper- or longer-than-expected recession, eroding the expected global demand growth.
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