Venezuela31 Jan 2019 13:01
Crazy that 500,000 bopd has been taken off the market and oil has hardly moved ! We should be much higher on especially WTI !
Opec and non opec 1.2 million bopd
SAUDI another 200,000 bopd
Canada another 350,000 bopd
Now Venezuela 500,000 bodp and we hardly move !!
Hopefully if fatso orange face baboon doesn’t screw up the trade deal with China then we might see it moving fast next week.
I hope the OPEC and non opec esp SAUDI tell trump to get lost if he asks them to pump more oil.
I am sure fatty will threaten to release the US oil reserves, I can see that clearly as I could see the Liverpool drawing with Leicester yesterday.
However, by Tuesday, oil traders finally woke up to the fact that the U.S. campaign to topple Maduro by essentially issuing an embargo on Venezuelan oil exports could lead to major disruptions in the market. WTI and Brent both rose sharply.
Even as U.S. sanctions simply bar American entities from doing business with PDVSA, the measures could wreak havoc on Venezuelan oil exports. U.S. refiners import around 500,000 bpd of Venezuelan oil. American sanctions also dictate that any revenues from oil sales would be put into an escrow to be managed by the government of Juan Gauidó. Maduro would obviously not want to fund his opposition, so oil exports to the U.S. will essentially cease going forward.