Oil at the maximum of more than 7 years

PRICE FOR OIL (March futures Brent) on Tuesday 18 January to 13.45 GMT + 3 grew by 1.8% to $ 87.6 dollars per barrel brand Brent. Thus, oil quotes update the highs since October 2014 – a new record set today is 88.12 dollars. The price of the WTI variety on Tuesday rose above $ 85 per barrel – for the first time from October 25.

Goldman Sachs experts expect the price of Brent oil in the next year about $ 105 per barrel. The oil market is not balanced due to surprisingly large deficit, since The strike of the coronavirus strain “Oomikron” in demand is still much less than expected, considered to be in Goldman Sachs.

Japanese oil and gas company Inpex plans to start searching and exploration drilling in waters near the prefectures of Symnore and Yamaguchi to search for oil and gas fields. Drilling will be carried out about 150 kilometers north of Yamaguchi Prefecture and approximately 130 kilometers to the north-west of the prefecture of Symnore. Drilling work will be held at a depth of about 240 meters. With positive The outcome of the drilling works will be the first case of search and exploration drilling in Japan for the purpose of commercial production over the past 20 years.

French Totalenergies and its partners received approval for the construction of West of Orkney Windfarm wind power plants from Scotland’s coast – 2 GW coast, with a potential investment sum of $ 5.5 billion. JV 38.25% is controlled by Totalenergies, 46.75% – Macquarie’s Green Investment Group and Ridg – by 15%.