Opec will balance oil markets, but spare capacity limited – Nigerian official
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) will act to balance the market after oil prices hit their highest in four years, but its options may be limited by available spare capacity, a Nigerian oil industry official said on Wednesday.
"It's obvious that if you have high prices it'll affect demand, so you have to do some market balance," Malam Mele Kyari, head of crude oil marketing at Nigeria's state oil firm NNPC and also the country's Opec representative, told Reuters.
"Opec will do everything to stabilise, to balance the market but I'm sure you're also aware that there's a limit to what they can do. You must have the spare capacity," Kyari said.
Oil prices surged this week on uncertainty over the global supply outlook following US sanctions on Iran's oil exports and also as Saudi Arabia and Russia ruled out any immediate boost to output.
Kyari said Nigeria planned to increase its crude oil, condensate output by 100 000 barrels per day by the end of the year, up from about 2-million barrels a day currently.
The country's current crude oil production is about 1.7-million barrels a day, he said.
In 2019, the African producer is aiming for an average output of 2.3-million barrels a day by boosting output from existing fields as well as starting new production from an ultra deepwater field, Kyari said.
Located some 130 km off Nigeria's coast at water depths of more than 1 500 m, the Egina oilfield is expected to start production in December and its output could peak at 200 000 barrels a day.
Kyari was in Singapore to launch the new Egina crude grade with field operator French oil major Total at APPEC.
The crude has an API gravity of 27.3° and has a sulphur content of 0.165%, a provisional crude assay from Total showed.
The grade has a higher yield of gasoil and vacuum distillates compared with other products, according to the assay.
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