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Oil · 11 July, 2022

Oil mixed as market weighs tight supply against recession jitters

Oil prices were unsteady on Monday, with Brent trading higher on supply concerns while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) dipped, as traders balanced supply concerns against worries about a recession or China's COVID-19 curbs hitting demand.

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MELBOURNE, July 11 (Reuters) - Oil prices were

unsteady on Monday, with Brent trading higher on supply concerns while West

Texas Intermediate (WTI) dipped, as traders balanced supply concerns against

worries about a recession or China's COVID-19 curbs hitting demand.

 

Brent crude futures were up 11 cents, or 0.1%, at
$107.13 a barrel at 0102 GMT, adding to a 2.3% gain on Friday.

 

U.S. WTI crude futures however slipped 15 cents, or
0.1%, to $104.64 a barrel, paring a 2% gain from Friday.

Trading was thinned by a public holiday in parts of
Southeast Asia.

 

Both contracts posted weekly declines last week as the
market was dominated by worries that rising interest rates to curb inflation

would spark a recession and dent oil demand.

 

"Net long positions in WTI crude futures at now
at their lowest level since March 2020, when demand collapsed amid the initial

outbreak of COVID-19. This is despite ongoing signs of tightness," ANZ

Research analysts said in a note.

 

Both benchmark contracts traded lower in early trade
on Monday then turned positive before trading in different directions.

 

The latest data on COVID-19 cases in China showed
numbers had fallen from the previous day, but concerns remain about the

potential for wider lockdowns after a new Omicron subvariant was discovered in

Shanghai.

 

On the supply side, the market remains nervous about
plans by Western nations to cap Russian oil prices, with President Vladimir

Putin warning further sanctions could lead to "catastrophic"

consequences in the global energy market.

 

Questions also remain about how long crude from
Kazakhstan via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) will flow for. Supply has

continued so far on the pipeline, which carries about 1% of global oil, even

after it was ordered by a Russian court last week to suspend operations.

 











































































CPC Blend crude oil exports are set to rise to 5.45
million tonnes for August from 4.86 million tonnes in July, a loading schedule

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By Sonali Paul July 11, 2022 9:28 AM GMT+8