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SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2025
Oil falls on demand worries over Shanghai's new partial lockdowns

Global Economy

Reuters
10 June, 2022, 10:30 am
Last modified: 10 June, 2022, 10:34 am

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Oil falls on demand worries over Shanghai's new partial lockdowns

Last week, OPEC+ - a group comprising OPEC and producers including Russia - agreed to accelerate output increases to tame runaway fuel prices and slow inflation

Reuters
10 June, 2022, 10:30 am
Last modified: 10 June, 2022, 10:34 am
Storage tanks are seen at Marathon Petroleum's Los Angeles Refinery, which processes domestic & imported crude oil into California Air Resources Board (CARB), gasoline, diesel fuel, and other petroleum products, in Carson, California, U.S., March 11, 2022. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Bing Guan
Storage tanks are seen at Marathon Petroleum's Los Angeles Refinery, which processes domestic & imported crude oil into California Air Resources Board (CARB), gasoline, diesel fuel, and other petroleum products, in Carson, California, U.S., March 11, 2022. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Bing Guan

Oil prices fell on Friday but still hovered near three-month highs, with fears over new Covid-19 lockdown measures in Shanghai outweighing solid demand for fuels in the world's top consumer United States.

Brent crude futures for August was down $1.01, or 0.8%, at $122.06 a barrel as of 0141 GMT after a 0.4% decline the previous day. US West Texas Intermediate crude for July fell 98 cents, or 0.8%, to $120.53 a barrel, having dropped 0.5% on Thursday.

Still, with prices rallying over the last two months, Brent was on track for a fourth consecutive weekly gain and WTI was set for a seventh straight weekly increase. Both benchmarks on Wednesday marked their highest closes since March 8, when they hit their highest settlements since 2008.

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"Shanghai's new pandemic restrictions raised concerns over demand in China," said Kazuhiko Saito, chief analyst at Fujitomi Securities Co Ltd.

"But losses were capped by expectations that tight global supply will continue with solid US demand for fuels and slow increase in crude output by OPEC+," he said.

Shanghai and Beijing went back on a fresh Covid-19 alert on Thursday after parts of China's largest economic hub imposed new lockdown restriction and the city announced a round of mass testing for millions of residents. 

China's crude oil imports rose nearly 12% in May from a low base in a year earlier, although refiners were still battling high inventories with Covid-19 lockdowns and a slowing economy weighing on fuel demand last month.

Meanwhile, peak summer gasoline demand in the United States continues to boost crude prices. The United States and other nations have engaged in a series of releases of strategic reserves, but these have had limited effect, with global crude production rising very slowly.

Last week, OPEC+ - a group comprising OPEC and producers including Russia - agreed to accelerate output increases to tame runaway fuel prices and slow inflation. But the move will leave the group with very little spare capacity and almost no room to compensate for a major supply outage. 

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