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Oil prices rose on Wednesday, pushed up by ongoing supply cuts from producer cartel OPEC and U.S. sanctions against Iran and Venezuela.
International Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 were at $66.85 a barrel at 0341 GMT, up 18 cents, or 0.3 percent, from their last close.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 were at $57.12 per barrel, up 25 cents, or 0.5 percent, from their last settlement.
Oil prices have been pushed up this year by supply cuts led by the Middle East dominated producer group of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Markets have been further tightened by the implementation of U.S. sanctions against oil exports from OPEC-members Iran and Venezuela.
In Venezuela, the worst blackout on record has left most of the South American country without power for six days, leaving hospitals struggling to keep equipment running, food rotting in the tropical heat and exports from the country’s main oil terminal stranded.
“Failures in the electrical system … (are) likely to accelerate the loss of 700,000 barrels per day” in oil supply, Barclays bank said.
National Australia Bank (NAB) said the oil market outlook was mixed, with downside price risk coming from economic growth concerns and strong oil supply growth from the United States, with OPEC’s supply cuts and U.S. sanctions against Iran and Venezuela acting as price drivers.
“On balance, we see a very gradual uptrend for oil this year, with Brent forecast to reach $70 per barrel by the end of the year,” NAB said.
U.S. crude oil production is expected to average about 12.30 million bpd in 2019, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Tuesday.That’s up from an average of around 11 million bpd in 2018 C-OUT-T-EIA.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Tuesday condemning the Australian officials over the imposition of sanctions against certain officials and state institutions of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Iran exported 130,000 tons of eggs valued at more than $140 million to the target countries in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended on March 19), the deputy agriculture minister for livestock, and poultry affairs said.
Over 33.09 billion cubic meters of water is stored behind the dams across Iran, indicating that 67 percent of the capacity of the country’s dams is full, according to the Iranian Energy Ministry data.
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States, taking more lives each year than all forms of cancer and chronic lower respiratory disease combined.
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