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Mike Blake | Reuters
Residential homes are shown next to a Shell Oil facility in Carson, California
The risk that oil could fall as low as $20 a barrel is
rising, with a persistent surplus requiring prices to remain lower for
longer to rebalance the market, Goldman Sachs said, cutting its
forecasts again.
"While we are increasingly convinced that the market needs to see lower oil prices for longer to achieve a production cut, the source of this production decline and its forcing mechanism is growing more uncertain, raising the possibility that we may ultimately clear at a sharply lower price with cash costs around $20 a barrel Brent prices," Goldman said in a note Friday.
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The sources of stress: an abundance of oil coupled with a scarcity of storage space. The bank estimates the industry added around 240 million barrels of petroleum to storage tanks from January to August. It projects available identified storage capacity outside China at around 375 million barrels and expects an around 240 million barrel inventory build outside China between September of this year and the end of 2016.
"In the event that storage fills faster than we forecast or capacity is lower than we model, the potential downside to our oil price forecast from hitting storage capacity is significant ," it said.
But it noted $20 a barrel isn't its base case, even though risks that oil will fall that low continue to rise, especially as the bank expects only moderate production declines through the end of the year.
"While we are increasingly convinced that the market needs to see lower oil prices for longer to achieve a production cut, the source of this production decline and its forcing mechanism is growing more uncertain, raising the possibility that we may ultimately clear at a sharply lower price with cash costs around $20 a barrel Brent prices," Goldman said in a note Friday.
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The sources of stress: an abundance of oil coupled with a scarcity of storage space. The bank estimates the industry added around 240 million barrels of petroleum to storage tanks from January to August. It projects available identified storage capacity outside China at around 375 million barrels and expects an around 240 million barrel inventory build outside China between September of this year and the end of 2016.
"In the event that storage fills faster than we forecast or capacity is lower than we model, the potential downside to our oil price forecast from hitting storage capacity is significant ," it said.
But it noted $20 a barrel isn't its base case, even though risks that oil will fall that low continue to rise, especially as the bank expects only moderate production declines through the end of the year.
Goldman cut its one-month, three-month, six-month and
12-month WTI oil price forecasts to $38, $42, $40 and $45 a barrel.
That's down from $45, $49, $54 and $60 previously.
It cut its average price forecast for 2016 to $45 a barrel from $57.
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Brent for October delivery was trading around $48.73 a barrel on Friday, while U.S. crude was trading around $45.63 a barrel. That follows a wild ride for oil prices, with crude rallying from a low of $37.75 touched on Aug. 24, with daily swings of more than 5 percent in either direction.
It cut its average price forecast for 2016 to $45 a barrel from $57.
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Brent for October delivery was trading around $48.73 a barrel on Friday, while U.S. crude was trading around $45.63 a barrel. That follows a wild ride for oil prices, with crude rallying from a low of $37.75 touched on Aug. 24, with daily swings of more than 5 percent in either direction.
"The oil market is even more oversupplied than we had
expected," Goldman said. "We now forecast this surplus to persist in
2016 on further OPEC production growth, resilient non-OPEC supply and
slowing demand growth, with risks skewed to even weaker demand given
China's slowdown and its negative emerging market feedback loop."
--Amanda Diaz contributed to this article.
--Amanda Diaz contributed to this article.
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