Talk of $100-a-barrel oil ‘supercycle’ is misplaced, warns IEA
Oil demand is likely to return to pre-pandemic levels by 2023 and will keep rising until at least 2026 unless the world takes more radical action on climate change, the International Energy Agency has said.
But talk of a new oil “supercycle” with sustained high prices is misplaced as the market has ample spare supply capacity to meet resurgent demand, the agency forecast.
Global oil demand fell by 9 million barrels per day, or almost a tenth, last year as the pandemic led to restrictions on travel for billions of people worldwide. Brent crude, the global benchmark oil price, tumbled to less than $20 a barrel in April.
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