OPEC Raises 2017 Estimate for Supply Growth From Rivals by 64%
- Non-OPEC to grow 950,000 barrels a day in 2017, led by U.S.
- Outlook for non-OPEC now 4 times higher than at outset of cuts
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OPEC boosted estimates for growth in rival supplies by 64 percent as the U.S. oil industry’s recovery accelerates, threatening the group’s attempts to clear a surplus.
Production from outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will increase by 950,000 barrels a day this year, OPEC said in a report, revising its forecast up by about 370,000. The projection is four times higher than in November, when the group announced a production cut to try and re-balance oversupplied world markets. Non-OPEC nations pump about 60 percent of the world’s oil.