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In the short run, the oil market surplus could reach a peak of 13.7 million bpd in April, with an average surplus of 12.9 million bpd for the second quarter, Standard Chartered said.
"Even just a week ago, it was difficult to imagine how oil market conditions could become significantly weaker," Standard Chartered said. "However, over the past week the restrictions placed on mobility by European and North American governments as part of their coronavirus response have significantly magnified the negative demand shock."
The bank said the inventory buildup could reach a gargantuan 2.1 billion barrels by the end of the year, "stretching the midstream of the industry to its limits," the bank wrote. That figure represents an upward revision of 50 per cent from the 1.4-billion-barrel inventory surplus the bank predicted. just a week ago.
According to Paul Sankey, managing director of Mizuho Securities, oil prices can go negative due to the coronavirus pandemic.
He argues that global oil demand is only around 100 million bpd, but the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could crash demand by up to 20 per cent. This would create a 20 million barrel-per-day surplus of oil in the market that would rapidly exceed storage capacity, forcing oil producers to pay customers to buy the commodity.
The Trump administration is taking advantage of the low oil prices to fill up its strategic reserves in Louisiana and Texas while supporting American shale producers in this tough time. The American government plans to purchase a total of 77 million barrels of oil starting within weeks. But according to Sankey, this can only be done at a rate of two million per day.
The Mizuho analyst argues that the US strategic reserve only has four months until it hits capacity. And he believes oil prices will go negative after it fills up.
Other analysts have even more dramatic scenarios. Eurasia Group says demand could fall by as much as 25 million bpd in the next few weeks and months. The historic glut means that the world could run out of storage space. "The combination of weakening demand and excess supply is hardly going to be accommodated by onshore storage," Giovanni Serio, head of analysis at Vitol, said.
The downturn could lead to more than 200 bankruptcies just in the European oilfield services sector, according to Rystad Energy, or 20 per cent of total firms in the sector.
Goldman Sachs said WTI could fall to shut-in price levels at between $23 and $26 per barrel, and in fact, the bank cut its predicted second quarter price for Brent to $20 per barrel, down from $30 previously.
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