Russia and Saudi Arabia see oil oversupply in 2022

Abu Dhabi, November 16 - Neftegaz.RU. Russian Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin told Bloomberg on the sidelines of this week’s oil industry even in Abu Dhabi:

• Everybody is predicting a surplus of supply starting from the 1^st or 2^nd quarter next year

The only question is when exactly that surplus will take place - but the difference is only a few months, according to Sorokin.
He added:

• Inventories have stopped drawing, which shows there is no deficit at the moment

Russia took the opportunity to point fingers at the U.S. government, which has for weeks been accusing OPEC of refusing to increase production to ease gasoline prices at American fuel pumps.

According to Sorokin, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy has a much greater impact on the oil and gas market than the supply and demand situation.
This is an important distinction because BP’s CEO Bernard Looney, for example, also at Adipec, said that he expects oil prices to remain robust for some time to come.

According to Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, inventories could already begin to rise next month and into Q1 2020, adding that this 400,000 bpd would be «enough».
«We need not to panic», bin Salman said, «we need to be calm».


This is the 1^st COP talks that targeted the oil and gas industry yet didn’t involve the industry in conversations about how to slow climate change.
Barkindo said:

• For us attending in Glasgow, this was an alarm bell
• I left Glasgow with this sobering feeling