the Price of crude oil rising by over ten percent after Saturday’s drone strikes against two oil facilities in Saudi Arabia.
Thus, there is also the more expensive gasoline.
When trading with crude oil started at 00.00 utc, jumped the price up by about 15 percent, writes the news agency Reuters. After about an hour is the price of a barrel of North sea oil, about 13 percent higher in just over 68 dollars.
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It was in advance expected that the prices would increase as a result of the attacks.
– It is quite a significant setback in production, which we are going to see in the short term, and it could get a pricing here in the beginning of the week, said chief economist Helge J. Pedersen from Nordea on Sunday.
the Attacks have temporarily reduced production by 5.7 million barrels of crude oil a day, reported the national saudi oil company Aramco on Sunday.
This is equivalent to over half of the country’s oil output and almost six percent of the world’s daily oil supply.
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In august, Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest exporter of oil a dagsproduktion at 9,85 million barrels. It writes the american media CNBC.
president of the UNITED states, Donald Trump, Sunday has given the green light to release oil from the nation’s strategic oil reserves, if it should be necessary.
the Decision is taken to keep the markets “well supplied”, he shall give in a tweet.
Houthi rebels in Yemen, which is fought by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia, has taken the blame for the two drone strikes. In recent years, the rebels have been behind a series of attacks targeting saudi arabian oil pipelines and oil tankers.
the UNITED states secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, in contrast, accused Iran of having carried out the attacks.
The u.s. government has, since Trump pulled the UNITED states out of atomaftalen with Iran in the spring of 2018, re-imposed sanctions against, among other things, Iran’s oil exports.
the Regime in Saudi Arabia has not yet announced whom it considers as responsible for the attacks.
