Crude Oil Steady Ahead of Crucial Oil Summit

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In the Friday session U.S crude Oil prices are showing limited movement all the day. Currently, WTI/USD futures are trading at $51.35. Brent crude futures are balanced at $54.12, And as the Brent premium stands at $2.77. Today’s key event is UoM Consumer Sentiment Price Index. The market is expecting the indicator to maintain to improve in December, with an estimate of 94.3 points. On Saturday, OPEC and non-OPEC nations will meet in Vienna to talk about extending the OPEC production agreement to other Products and oil exporters.Thsnks for veiw Free Forex Signals.

All Oil prices have surged since OPEC reached a production cut agreement at the last week, but members will have to honor their quotas in order for the deal to calm down oil prices. OPEC members have set record productions levels in current months, and non-OPEC members for example Russia have also been producing at very very high levels. This means that yet with the OPEC agreement, the global glut of oil will continue for some to come. On Saturday OPEC and non-OPEC countries will meet, but it’s undecided if non-OPEC nations will agree to a production cut agreement. If an agreement is reached, So we could see Next week crude prices continue go up higher.Free Forex Signals views about nest week.

Next week The Federal Reserve will take center step as the Fed meets for its monthly policy meeting  on Wednesday. After Donald Trump’s election as president, This will be the first meeting. More importantly of course, the markets have priced in a rate hike at 95%, most possible a quarter-point increase. Last December This would spot the first rate move by the Fed since, and the U.S dollar could respond with wide gains after a rate hike. It will be exciting to see what happens early next year, with the Trump management taking over in Washington. Trump has declared that he plans to increase government spending and cut taxes, which could go ahead to higher price rises levels. The Fed has indicated that it plans to move up rates regularly in 2017, but this could change once the new administration’s economic policies become clearer. It’s a report for crude oil mevement for this whole week. Thanks for viewing our Post. Thanks for view Free Forex signals.

U.S. drillers add oil rigs for 21st week in 24 -Baker Hughes

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U.S. oil drillers increased rigs this week for a 21th week in the last 24, as energy firms follow through on plans to add rigs made months ago when crude was still trading over the key $50 a barrel level analysts said should lead to more drilling.

Drillers added two oil rigs in the week to Nov. 11, bringing the total count up to 452, the most since February, but still below the 574 rigs seen a year ago, energy services firm Baker Hughes Inc said on Friday.

Since crude topped $50 a barrel in May, June and October, drillers have added 136 oil rigs, its biggest recovery in over two years since prices collapsed due to a global oil glut.

The Baker Hughes oil rig count plunged from a record 1,609 in October 2014 to a six-year low of 316 in May as U.S. crude collapsed from over $107 a barrel in June 2014 to near $26 in February 2016.

U.S. crude futures were trading above $43 a barrel on Friday, on track to fall for a third week in a row after OPEC said its output in October reached a record high, casting doubt on whether its plans to limit production would ease persistent oversupply in the market. [O/R]

But with oil prices still expected to rise in 2017 and 2018 with a projected tightening of the supply-demand balance, analysts continued to expect energy firms to follow through on previously announced plans to boost spending on new drilling in coming years.

Futures were trading near $47 a barrel for calendar 2017 and near $50 for calendar 2018.

Analysts at U.S. financial services firm Cowen & Co said this week in a note that its capital expenditure tracking showed 17 exploration and production (E&P) companies, including ConocoPhillips and Concho Resources Inc, planned to increase spending by an average of 33 percent in 2017 over 2016.

Cowen said that forecast 2017 increase followed an estimated 48 percent decline in 2016 and a 35 percent decline in 2015 for the 65 E&P companies it tracks.

Analysts at Simmons & Co, energy specialists at U.S. investment bank Piper Jaffray, this week forecast the total oil and natural gas rig count would average 504 in 2016, 685 in 2017 and 896 in 2018. Most wells produce both oil and gas.

That compares with an average of 978 oil and gas rigs active in 2015, according to Baker Hughes data. Thanks.