The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects the average price of crude oil this year to be $93

International Energy Newsletter: The U.S. government announced in its first energy estimation report for 2012 that the average US crude oil price is expected to be US$93 per barrel this year, a significant increase of US$14 from last year, and will rise to the fourth quarter of next year. 99 dollars. The pace of global oil demand growth will accelerate in 2012, but non-OPEC oil output will remain flat, which will cause oil prices to rise to an average of 99 US dollars per barrel.

In this month’s monthly EIA forecast by the U.S. Department of Energy, there is only a slight change in the oil demand outlook for 2011, which will reduce the global daily oil demand growth by only 20,000 to 1.45 million barrels a year. 1.7%. Demand for oil is expected to increase by 1.9% in 2012, with a total increase of 1.63 million barrels per day. Oil consumption will hit a record high of 8,965,000 barrels per day. The daily oil demand this year is expected to reach a peak of 8,802 barrels.

Analysts of the agency said that in the next two years, the global annual oil demand increase will be higher than the average of about 1 million barrels in the last 10 years, an annual increase of 1.2%. In the next two years, the full growth of oil demand will be occupied by developing countries. China, the Middle East, and Brazil are the regions with the largest oil consumption.

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