L’Algérie ne respecte pas l’accord de réduction de la production pétrolière, constate Global Platts

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Agence Ecofin) - L’accord de réduction de la production de pétrole en zone OPEP a été respecté par tous les pays membres du cartel sauf l’Algérie. C’est ce qu’indique une note des analystes de Standard and Poor’s Global Platts.

En effet, au terme du mois de janvier 2017, il a été constaté que le pays maghrébin n’a non seulement pas réduit sa production de 50 000 b/j comme imposé par l’OPEP, mais a pompé 10 000 b/j supplémentaires. C’est l’équivalent de 300 000 barils de trop produits en janvier 2017. Un constat amer pour les autres membres du groupe qui avaient, avant l’accord, souvent été interpellés par l’Algérie pour faire des efforts dans le sens de la réduction de l’offre afin de faire remonter les prix de l’or noir. Comme l’a anticipé Le 360, les autres pays de l’OPEP demanderont sans doute des comptes au pays maghrébin.

Ce rapport accable également l'Agence nationale algérienne pour l'évaluation des ressources en hydrocarbures (ALNAFT) qui avait assuré, début janvier, avoir distribué à chacune des compagnies pétrolières opérant dans le pays un quota de réduction sur une base équitable. Elle avait aussi ajouté qu’un organe de suivi avait été mis en place pour veiller à la bonne application de la réduction.

Il apparaît donc clairement que l’Algérie est le mauvais élève de la classe OPEP.

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Donc c'est le premier pays qui milite pour la baisse de la production et qui finalement ne s'y colle pas !

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L'organe en question est operationel en fevrier pour tous les pays opep donc les mauvaises langues n'auront plus de salive pour s'emousser

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- 09/02/2017 (a 10h10): ---> Agenceecofin. L’Algérie ne respecte pas l’accord de réduction de la production pétrolière, constate Global Platts

- 08/02/2017 (a 14h13): ---> .le360.ma. Petrole: l'Algerie ne respecte pas les quotas de L’OPEP

Global Platts

The 10 OPEC members obligated to reduce oil output under the landmark agreement signed late last year achieved 91% of their required cuts in January, with their production falling 1.14 million b/d from October levels, according to an S&P Global Platts survey released Monday.

Those cuts were, however, offset partly by output gains in Libya and Nigeria, which are exempt from the accord, and Iran, which is allowed to increase its production slightly.

In all, OPEC's 13 members -- not including Indonesia, which suspended its membership at the group's last meeting -- produced 32.16 million b/d in January, a 690,000 b/d decline from December, the Platts survey showed.

With Indonesia, the organization's January production totaled 32.89 million b/d.

Under the agreement, OPEC pledged to cut 1.2 million b/d from its October output levels for six months starting from January 1 and freeze production at around 32.5 million b/d, including Indonesia.

Eleven non-OPEC countries led by Russia have also agreed to cut output by 558,000 b/d in the first half of 2017.

The survey shows that several OPEC countries covered by the agreement still need to make some progress in lowering output to their allocations, though the overcompliance of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Angola helps compensate.

Since the deal covers an average of January to June output, some month-to-month fluctuations are to be expected.

Saudi Arabia has backed up the strong words of its energy minister Khalid al-Falih, who played a key role in negotiating the agreement, with its January production falling to 9.98 million b/d, according to the Platts survey.

That is below its allocation of 10.06 million b/d under the deal, as crude exports declined by more than 500,000 b/d in the month, Platts shipping tracker cFlow showed. It is also the first month Saudi production has been below 10 million b/d since February 2015, according to the survey archives.

Falih in recent weeks had said that the kingdom would "strictly adhere to our commitment" and signaled that it would make deeper cuts in February.

Likewise, Kuwaiti oil minister Essam al-Marzouq, who chairs a five-country committee that will monitor and enforce the production agreement, has said that Kuwait would "lead by example."

Accordingly, Kuwait's production for January was under its quota of 2.71 million b/d, coming in at 2.7 million b/d, a 130,000 b/d drop from December, the survey showed.

Besides Kuwait, the monitoring committee comprises fellow OPEC members Algeria and Venezuela, along with non-OPEC Russia and Oman.

IRAQ HAS WORK TO DO

Algeria is slightly above its quota of 1.04 million b/d, with January production at 1.05 million b/d, while Venezuela also exceeds its allocation of 1.97 million b/d, producing 2.01 million b/d in the month, according to the survey.

Angola is below its allocation of 1.67 million b/d, with January output at 1.63 million b/d, as its crude loadings showed declines in the month.

Iraq, which had sought an exemption from the deal, has the most barrels to cut to reach its allocation, with January output at 4.48 million b/d, according to the survey, while its quota is 4.35 million b/d.

The January figure, however, was a decline of 150,000 b/d from December production, as exports from Iraq's southern terminals showed a significant decline from the previous month's record levels.

Iran, which is allowed to boost production to 3.80 million b/d under the deal, had January production of 3.72 million b/d, a 30,000 b/d increase from December.

Meanwhile, exempt Libya and Nigeria showed increases of 50,000 b/d and 210,000 b/d, respectively, as they continue to recover from militancy-related outages.

Libyan output had reached 715,000 b/d during the month, but frequent power shortages and a fire at the Sarir field caused production to fall towards the end of January, for a full-month average of 670,000 b/d, according to the survey.

Nigerian output saw good signs of recovery after recent attacks on infrastructure in the Niger Delta, as well as the return of key export grade Agbami from maintenance last month, averaging 1.65 million b/d in January.

The Platts estimates were obtained by surveying OPEC and oil industry officials, traders and analysts, as well as reviewing proprietary shipping data.

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Tiens les membres de la cellule de propagande qui ironisaient sur l’Algérie qui avait réduit sa production seule et qu'elle était le dindon de la farce.

Comme quoi le ridicule.....