| The world’s three big energy agencies are forecasting higher demand for OPEC’s crude oil this year, a sign the producing nations’ strategy to let prices fall is starting to win them back market share from rivals who are cutting output. After an oversupply of world oil sent prices tumbling in 2014, top OPEC exporter Saudi Arabia urged fellow members not to prop up the market and to try to knock out competing sources like U.S. shale, which, because it has higher production costs, had to cut output when prices fell.
In reports this week, The International Energy Agency and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries have raised by at least 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) their estimates of demand for OPEC crude in 2015, while the U.S. government’s Energy Information Administration forecasts OPEC will pump 140,000 bpd more...............................................Full Article: Source
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