Brent crude rises above $100 a barrel as Middle East conflict intensifies

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Benchmark Brent crude oil futures rose past $100 a barrel on Wednesday, hitting a six-week high due to intensifying conflict in the Middle East. The price increase is attributed to concerns about oil flows from the region and supply risks that have mounted since the Iran war began on February 28. Brent crude prices have risen by a quarter since early last month, with some banks, including Goldman Sachs and HSBC, raising their crude price forecasts. According to Rystad Energy's Chief Economist Claudio Galimberti, oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz have fallen significantly, from 8-9 million barrels per day before the recent escalation in fighting to below 2 million bpd.
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The Trump administration announced an arrangement with Venezuela last week that would see the US gain control over 65 billion barrels worth of oil fields, representing about one-fifth of Venezuela’s total reserves. This deal includes a 35 percent stake for the Pentagon in North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP), a firm led by Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt, who was previously under U.S. money-laundering investigation. The State Department also gets preferential rights to buy 20% of NABEP’s oil at cost and first refusal for the remaining 80 percent.

Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodriguez claims this agreement will bring much-needed foreign investment to her country's struggling oil industry, but many in Venezuela view her as illegitimate after the U.S. military captured former President Nicolás Maduro earlier this year. Opposition leader María Corina Machado has criticized the deal, arguing that Venezuela’s natural resources belong to its people rather than "an illegitimate regime."

The arrangement raises concerns among Venezuelan opposition figures who fear it could bolster the authoritarian government's control and undermine democratic progress in the country.

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Brent crude futures were up $2.01, or 2.05 per cent, at $99.93 a barrel by 01:02pm PKT, after earlier touching $100.19, while US West Texas Intermediate crude was up $1.49, or 1.60pc, at $94.52 a barrel. Brent crude prices have risen by a quarter since early last month as hopes fade for a permanent resolution to the six-month-old US-Iran conflict. Since the Iran war began on February 28, Brent has surged as high as $126.41 a barrel, a peak reached on April 30.
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Benchmark Brent crude oil futures rose past $100 a barrel on Wednesday, hitting a more than six-week high and breaching the symbolic threshold for the first time since July 24 as intensifying conflict in the Middle East heightened concerns about oil flows from the region. asserted
conflict → rise → region
Brent crude futures were up $2.01, or 2.05 per cent, at $99.93 a barrel by 01:02pm PKT, after earlier touching $100.19, while US West Texas Intermediate crude was up $1.49, or 1.60pc, at $94.52 a barrel. Brent crude prices have risen by a quarter since early last month as hopes fade for a permanent resolution to the six-month-old US-Iran conflict. Since the Iran war began on February 28, Brent has surged as high as $126.41 a barrel, a peak reached on April 30. asserted
Brent → touch → April
This week, attacks by Houthis on Saudi energy facilities set oil installations ablaze, threatening a significant expansion of the conflict. asserted
attacks → set → conflict
The attacks also threaten crude shipments via the Red Sea, which has been a key alternative route to the crucial Strait of Hormuz, where oil flows have been severely curtailed since the February 28 start of the Iran war. asserted
flows → threaten → war
Supply risks mount “Market participants appear to be pricing in a more prolonged conflict in the Middle East as well as the risk that the latest escalation in military strikes disrupts oil flows from the Middle East,” said Hamad Hussain, senior climate and commodities economist at Capital Economics. asserted
Hussain → mount → Economics
“The key risk is whether the recent attacks on oil tankers lead to fewer ship-to-ship transfers taking place in the Gulf of Oman, which have so far played a key role in providing oil to global markets and keeping a lid on prices. asserted
which → lead → prices
A growing number of banks, including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and HSBC, have raised their crude price forecasts in recent days. asserted
number → grow → days
In the week before a resumption in fighting on August 30, roughly 8 million to 9m bpd had flowed through Hormuz, double the previous week’s volume, according to Rystad Energy’s Chief Economist Claudio Galimberti, although more recently it had fallen below 2 million bpd. uncertain
it → flow → bpd
“I think the market is trying to treat this rise in energy prices as a one-off. asserted
market → think → off
It’s not. asserted
It → ’ → ?
It’s not going away, and it’s part of what I would argue as a security premium. asserted
I → go → premium
And it’s only going to get bigger,” said Jeffrey Currie, co-chairman at Abaxx Markets. asserted
Currie → go → Markets
While non-Opec oil producers including the United States, Canada and Guyana have ramped up output, the International Energy Agency said last month it expected global oil supply would fall this year by 4.3 million bpd, or about 4pc. asserted
supply → include → bpd
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