IEA Sees Strongest Global Oil-Demand Growth in Two Years
- Inventories of refined fuels returning to average levels
- Hurricane Harvey’s impact on oil markets to be ‘short-lived’
IEA: OPEC May Not Dramatically Impact Oil Supply
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Global oil demand will climb this year by the most since 2015, the International Energy Agency said, amid stronger-than-expected consumption in Europe and the U.S.
The IEA, which advises most major economies on energy policy, increased its estimate for demand growth in 2017 by 100,000 barrels a day to 1.6 million a day, or 1.7 percent. The re-balancing of oversupplied world markets is continuing, it said, with OPEC supplies falling for the first time in five months and inventories of refined fuels in developed nations subsiding toward average levels.