Home Industry Global oil market will return to surplus in early 2017 – IEA The agency said demand growth in 2017 is likely to be flat at around 1.3 million barrels per day by Reuters June 14, 2016 Global oil supply and demand appear to be balancing in 2016, after a series of unplanned production outages, but the market is expected to return to a surplus in the first half of next year, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday. The agency said demand growth in 2017 is likely to be flat at around 1.3 million barrels per day (bpd), which is where it now estimates growth will be this year. “Again, on the planning assumption that OPEC oil production grows modestly in 2017, we expect to see global oil stocks build slightly in the first half of 2017 before falling slightly more in the second half of 2017. For the year as a whole, there will be a very small stock draw of 0.1 million bpd,” the IEA said in its monthly report. Tags demand global IEA Market oil 0 Comments You might also like Saudi Arabia posts $8bn Q3 deficit as lower oil prices weigh Will they or won’t they? Talk of Saudi cutting oil prices for Asia Oil prices regain ground after 7% loss last week Most Gulf markets fall on geopolitics, weak oil