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Crude Oil Mixed In Asia As US Benchmark Gains Ahead Of Rig Count Data |
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Nov 17 2017 |
Crude oil prices were narrowly mixed on Friday as investors looked ahead to weekly US rig count figures to set the tone.
Overnight, crude oil prices settled lower on Thursday as investors fretted over a potential uptick in global supply amid reports that Turkey and Iraq discussed resuming exports from the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline.
A discussion between Iraq and Turkey on resuming Kirkuk oil export from the Ceyhan pipeline sparked fears of oversupply as many said a possible uptick in exports would forced OPEC to rein in production.
“The priority is to resume oil exports from Kirkuk through the Iraqi-Turkish pipeline once it has been rehabilitated or replaced by a new one.
That added to recent fears that rising U.S. production would dampened the impact of Opec’s production cuts, which so far are widely believed to be moving oil markets closer to rebalancing.
Preliminary U.S. production figures showed weekly output rose by 25,000 to an all-time high of 9.65 million barrels per day, as crude oil stockpiles rose for second week in arrow, the Energy Information Administration Energy Agency said.
Source: Businessline.com
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