Oil Price Caps Cuts Russia’s Export Revenue by Nearly $8 billion in January YoY: IEA Chief

Sun Feb 05 2023
icon-facebook icon-twitter icon-whatsapp

Monitoring Desk

ISLAMABAD: The chief of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Fatih Birol said on Sunday that in January, price caps on Russian oil cut around $8 billion or 30 percent of Moscow’s export revenues from oil and gas exports, from a year ago period.

Demand for oil to center around Chinese demand for jet fuel

Birol added that in 2023 the worldwide increase in demand for oil would come from China and with regard to that OPEC+ countries may need to review their (output) policies.

Birol explained while referring to the Chinese exploding demand for jet fuel, that as in the current year China’s economy is rebounding it would exert upward pressure on its demand for oil.

Regarding Fatih Birol’s statement, a Twitter user posted this:

icon-facebook icon-twitter icon-whatsapp