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Who's setting the world's oil prices?

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Question ajoutée par Muhammad Ahsan Zia , Assistant Production Manager , Al Karam paper Mills Pvt Ltd.
Date de publication: 2016/04/26
Ahmad Al - Ojayan
par Ahmad Al - Ojayan , Head Of Operations , Nesma Security Services Co.

it is set by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

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Well, Its a matter of multiple factors such as :

01- Opec decisions.

02- Geopolitical Circumstances

03- Supply & Demands

04- Speculations

05- Wars & Crisis 

 

Firas El Haj
par Firas El Haj , senior quality engineer , Al Khaleej Sugar refinery

Supply and Demand of oil is the significant factor

Mohammed Ali parakkalathil
par Mohammed Ali parakkalathil , Lead Document Controller/ Information Management Specialist , Kbr Inc. - Iraq

Apart from following factors big oil importing couriers ........ getting oil in black market less price than from open market (Legal Market )

- Opec decisions.

- Geopolitical Circumstances

- Supply & Demands

- Speculations

- Wars & Crisis 

Mohammed  Ashraf
par Mohammed Ashraf , Director of International Business , Saqr Al-Khayala Group

With oil's stature as a high-demand global commodity comes the possibility that major fluctuations in price can have a significant economic impact. The two primary factors that impact the price of oil are:

  • supply and demand
  • market sentiment

The concept of supply and demand is fairly straightforward. As demand increases (or supply decreases) the price should go up. As demand decreases (or supply increases) the price should go down. Sound simple?

The price of oil as we know it is actually set in the oil futures market. An oil futures contract is a binding agreement that gives one the right to purchase oil by the barrel at a predefined price on a predefined date in the future. Under a futures contract, both the buyer and the seller are obligated to fulfill their side of the transaction on the specified date.

Additionally, from a historical perspective, there appears to be a possible 29-year (plus or minus one or two years) cycle that governs the behavior of commodity prices in general. Since the beginning of oil's rise as a high-demand commodity in the early 1900s, major peaks in the commodities index have occurred in 1920, 1951 and 1980. Oil peaked with the commodities index in both 1920 and 1980. (Note: there was no real peak in oil in 1951 because it had been moving in a sideways trend since 1948 and continued to do so through 1968.) It is important to note that supply, demand and sentiment take precedence over cycles because cycles are just guidelines, not rules.

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It should the market fundementals that are setting world oil prices. However, as oil is a strategic commodoity, geopolitical events and trader and consumer sentiments often have their effect,

Jishar Mohamed
par Jishar Mohamed , Trade Coordinator , Horizon Energy LLC

Basically, like any other commodity, Oil prices are set by the demand and supply across the globe. However, lots other factors such as geopolitics, OPEC  production, natural events and calamities and also oil alternatives affect Oil prices to a great extend. The prices also vary market to market depending on regional specificities.

Melanie Fermin
par Melanie Fermin , Coordinator - QHSE / Admin and Document , IRM Offshore Services

Oil prices are set by the worldwide demand and supply and also relate to many uncertain factors.

Aside from economic growth and geopolitical risks, other factors, which includes weather events, inventories, exchange rates, investments, spare capacity, OPEC production decisions, and non-OPEC supply growth affects the oil price.

Narendra Rao Asapu
par Narendra Rao Asapu , Supervisor , Divi's Laboratories Limited

Oil prices is set by Organization of petroleum exporting countries

Kristin Grace Ramos
par Kristin Grace Ramos , Operations Administrator , ORYX Engineering Solutions – RAS

NYMEX, IPE, SIMEX with the influence of OPEX

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