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Home»Energy»Oil & Gas»Goldman Sachs Slashes Oil Price Forecast To $57.50 Per Barrel
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Goldman Sachs Slashes Oil Price Forecast To $57.50 Per Barrel

By orientalnewsngJune 30, 2017No Comments2 Mins Read
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Goldman Sachs is slashing its three-month price forecast for WTI to the US $57.50 barrel from US$55, after seeing that output gains in Libya and Nigeria could jeopardize OPEC’s efforts to reduce global inventories, so the cartel may have to cut deeper in order to prop oil prices.

“This threatens to close the window of time for stocks to normalize before OPEC cuts end and raises the concerns that OPEC will then ramp up production to defend market share,” Goldman analysts Damien Courvalin and Jeff Currie said in a report, as quoted by Bloomberg.

Just a week ago, another team of Goldman analysts, the bank’s European energy team, said that the selloff in energy stocks is but an opportunity for buyers, and that current low prices are likely unsustainable in the long run.

Goldman’s last week note came while the oil prices dropped to a ten-month low.

In this week’s report, the investment bank thinks that output gains in production-cut-exempt Libya and Nigeria could derail the inventory drop expected in the third quarter this year.

“The approach adopted so far by OPEC, akin to a central bank, has ultimately proved self-defeating by cutting too little but reassuring too much,” according to Goldman.

Earlier this week, reports suggested that while OPEC may be mulling over deeper oil production cuts, they won’t be rushing to make that decision, even though a panel monitoring the cuts will be meeting next month. But today, UAE Energy Minister said there were no so mulling.

According to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey for the second quarter, the majority of executives from 112 oil and gas firms 67 percent said they expect the oil market to come into balance in 2018 or sooner, with a third saying it will be 2019 or beyond. Eleven percent believe that the balancing will happen sometime in the second half of 2017.

Goldman’s warning that rising supply would offset expected inventory declines and weigh on oil prices comes after Bank of America Merrill Lynch and oil and gas consultancy FGE said that oil prices are headed into the US$30s if OPEC doesn’t make steeper cuts.

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