Oil Rises After Report Iranian Forces Surrounded Iraqi Well
мнда...чего только не делают что-бы повысить цены на нефть. Рука Кремля небось.
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By Nidaa Bakhsh
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Oil rose in New York after reports that Iranian forces entered Iraqi territory and surrounded a well.
Crude for January delivery was also helped by U.S. and German economic data that may indicate a rebound in demand for energy, rising as much as $1.67, or 2.3 percent, to $74.32 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Iranian forces entered Iraqi territory at dawn yesterday and occupied well number 4 in the East Maysan field in al-Fakah region, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Baghdad, Border Guard General Zaser Nazmi said. The Iranian forces positioned tanks around the well. The border guard’s comments couldn’t be immediately verified independently.
“They positioned tanks around it and dug trenches,” Nazmi said by phone from Basra. “They are still there, they raised the flag.”
East Maysan in southern Iraq is an old oilfield that is no longer in production, according to Nazmi. Iraq is the third largest oil producer in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia and Iran.
“It is significant; it’s really scary,” said Andrey Kryuchenkov, a VTB Capital Plc analyst in London. “The immediate implication of this Iranian news is going to linger for the next couple of weeks, limiting the downside,” he said.
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