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Oil prices are now going down again after rallying close to 60 dollars per barrels. Again, the prices failed to touch the $60 threshold. Brent oil lost 2,5% in 24 hours. NordFX reports that Brent futures for December delivery were trading around $58,53/b on Wednesday. On Thursday, the price dropped down to $57,03/b, which was the lowest price level since the end of the previous trading week. WTI oil went down in price as well. On Thursday, the price dropped down to 51,74 per barrel.
Many oil-exporting nations have been joining efforts to push oil prices higher. Still, some experts believe that they shouldn’t count on higher oil prices since this is not going to happen.
The OPEC is reported to have offered American shale oil companies to join the Vienna Accord, also known as the OPEC+, which is the agreement designed to cap the production of crude oil and restore the market balance for the sake of higher oil prices in the future. However, some experts say that they won’t agree to do so even if they are threatened.
Friday’s trading session made crude oil go in the red zone. According to Masterforex-V Academy experts, the USA started increasing the production and export of crude oil, and the international trading community has been concerned about that ever since, which is, by the way, is believed to be the key reason for this price drop.
Russia and Saudi Arabia insist on extending the OPEC deal for another 3 months – up to middle 2018.
The OPEC’s average daily level of oil production saw another high in June 2017. To be more specific, they produced 260K barrels a day more than in May 2017. The biggest gainers in term of oil production were Libya and Nigeria. Those are the OPEC members that didn’t sign the so-called Vienna Accord, which is why they are not obliged to freeze their oil production.