Drone attacks over the weekend knocked out about half of Saudi Arabia's daily crude production, causing oil prices to shoot up.
"We've also seen higher domestic production in the U.S. and of course, we've got itself, there are other members that ... aren't producing at capacity," Lennox said.
"If we do see a significant period of time where the Saudis are out of action or half of their production is out of action, there will be some offset coming from other OPEC members because they've been quite compliant between 29 and 30 million barrels and we know they can go higher," he added. The latest development came amid ongoing supply curbs by OPEC, which in early July announced its decision — along with several non-OPEC producers including Russia — to curb output into 2020 in an effort to boost prices amid a weakening demand outlook andSaudi Arabia has taken on the lion's share of the cuts, pumping less than 10 million barrels per day of crude, significantly below its OPEC production target.
"The ability of oil producers to dip into stock piles to smooth the oil price may mitigate some of the rise in the near term, however, the bigger issue is what premium markets will build in to reflect the risk of further attacks," Kerry Craig, global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, wrote in a note.may be harmed," he said. "This may particularly be the case for oil importing economies in Asia and the currencies of those countries could come under stress.
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