Oil Prices Extend Gains for the Third Week in a Row

January 10, 2025 by admin

Irina is an author for Oilprice.com with over a years of experience composing on the oil and gas market.

By Irina Slav – Jan 10, 2025, 1:10 AM CST

Petroleum rates were set for their 3rd week of gains today, as need for heating fuel kept rates raised.

The gains are modest for both Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate however a sign of a more powerful market than some anticipated.

“We expect a substantial year-over-year boost in international oil need of 1.6 million barrels a day in the very first quarter of 2025, mainly improved by … need for heating oil, kerosene, and LPG,” JP Morgan experts stated today, as priced quote by Reuters.

This need is being driven by cooler weather condition than the last 2 winter seasons, in both Europe and the United States. There is likewise an issue that last-minute sanctions versus Russia from the Biden administration might even more impact supply in an unfavorable method.

The bank's experts have actually approximated that for each degree Fahrenheit that temperature levels drop listed below the 10-year average for this time of the year, need for petroleum boosts by 113,000 barrels daily as heating requires boost. An extra bullish danger originates from the threat of production disturbance from the weather condition due to freezing, the experts stated.

Citi product experts are likewise bullish on petroleum thanks to the weather condition. The bank raised its cost projection for Brent crude in the very first quarter of the year to $71 per barrel from $65 per barrel formerly, likewise mentioning the possibility of extra U.S. sanctions versus Iran.

Projections for oil market volatility are likewise altering in the middle of a pullout of algorithmic traders from that market after 2 years of losses. Bloomberg reported the advancement, pointing out information from Bridgerton Research Group, which revealed algo traders were stopping oil after a 2nd successive year of losses, with the weight of the product in their portfolios cutting in half from 4% in mid-2024 to simply 2% at the start of the brand-new year.

By Irina Slav for Oilprice.com