Oil slips back below US$94 a barrel; pump price dips

Source: Agencies | January 17, 2014, Friday |

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The price of oil edged lower yesterday, a day after recording its biggest gain of the new year.

Benchmark US crude oil for February delivery slipped 21 cents to close at US$93.96 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract surged US$1.58 to settle at US$94.17 in New York on Wednesday. That 1.7 percent increase was only the third gain for oil since Jan. 1, and by far the biggest.

Brent crude, used to set prices for international varieties of crude, fell 52 cents to US$105.75.

The market was buoyed Wednesday by a report from the US Energy Department that showed oil supplies fell by 7.7 million barrels last week, the seventh straight weekly decline. Analysts expected a more modest drop of 1.6 million barrels.

Yesterday OPEC said in a report that it expects global demand for oil to increase by around 1 million barrels a day, up from an increase of 900,000 barrels a day in 2013.

Supply is also on the rise, the organization said. It revised up slightly its estimates for oil supplies from non-OPEC countries for both 2013 and 2014.

In the US, drivers paid a little less for gas, as the nationwide average price for a gallon of gasoline fell 1 penny to US$3.30. That's still up 8 cents from a month ago.

In other energy futures trading in New York, natural gas rose 6 cents to US$4.38 per 1,000 cubic feet (28.32 cubic meters).

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Oil slips back below US$94 a barrel; pump price dips

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