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BLBG: Oil Trades Near 5-Year Low as Russia Echoes OPEC Output Policy
 
Oil in New York traded near a five-year low as Russia reiterated that it will keep crude production steady next year, echoing OPEC’s strategy of refraining from curbing supply to tackle a global surplus.

Futures fell as much as 2.4 percent after sliding below $54 a barrel yesterday for the first time since May 2009. Output from Russia, the world’s largest crude producer, will be similar to this year’s 10.6 million barrels a day, according to Energy Minister Alexander Novak. Iran is said to be offering shipments to Asia at the deepest discount in at least 14 years, taking a cue from Saudi Arabia in cutting price differentials.

Oil has slumped about 45 percent this year as a surge in shale drilling lifted U.S. output to the fastest pace in three decades amid slower growth in world demand. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries including Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest exporter, have resisted calls from smaller producers such as Venezuela and Ecuador to reduce output to stem the price drop.

“Russia not cutting adds to the downside pressure and leaves the focus squarely on U.S. shale producers’ ability to obtain finance and carry on producing at current levels,” Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank A/S, said by e-mail. “WTI has not challenged the previous day’s high for the last 17 days. This means that those holding shorts are hanging in there without too much of a worry.”

West Texas Intermediate for January delivery declined as much as $1.32 to $54.61 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange and was at $54.99 at 10:27 a.m. London time. It gained 2 cents to $55.93 yesterday. Total volume traded was 67 percent above the 100-day average for the time of day. Prices are set for the biggest annual loss since 2008.

Russian Economy

Brent for February settlement was 62 cents, or 1 percent, lower at $59.39 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. The January contract expired yesterday after decreasing 2 percent to $59.86. The European benchmark crude traded at a premium of $3.94 to WTI for February.

Brent’s collapse this year is contributing to a currency crisis in Russia, which relies on energy exports for half its budget. Sanctions imposed by the U.S. and European Union over the conflict in Ukraine also spurred Russia’s largest capital outflows in six years as its economy nears recession.

The price of oil “will stabilize itself,” Novak said at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Doha yesterday.

Iran Discount

National Iranian Oil Co. will ship light crude to Asia at $1.80 a barrel below a regional benchmark in January, according to four people with knowledge of the decision. Its official selling price for December was at a premium of 13 cents. Similar discounts were offered earlier this month by the state oil companies of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait.

“We do believe the Saudis when they say they are prepared for an extended period of low prices, long enough in duration to achieve their goal of slowing and possibly reversing U.S. production growth,” Michael Wittner, the head of oil market research at Societe Generale SA in New York, wrote in an e-mailed report today.

In the U.S., crude inventories expanded by 1.9 million barrels last week, the American Petroleum Institute in Washington reported yesterday, ForexLive and LiveSquawk said on Twitter. Supplies at Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for New York futures contracts, rose by 2.7 million.

Stockpiles probably shrank by 2.25 million barrels, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of eight analysts before data from the Energy Information Administration today.

The industry-funded API collects information on a voluntary basis from operators of refineries, bulk terminals and pipelines. The government requires that reports be filed with the EIA, the Energy Department’s statistical arm.

To contact the reporters on this story: Heesu Lee in Seoul at hlee425@bloomberg.net; Rupert Rowling in London at rrowling@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Alaric Nightingale at anightingal1@bloomberg.net Bruce Stanley, Nicholas Larkin
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