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Another Big Reason to Think Oil Prices Aren't Going Up Soon/ Q3 W4 F8 `4 j# Y. ?5 ? g! A# O
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' y6 i# g" g8 R* r: {/ N$ ]9 ?2 ?Oil just had its first weekly decline in a month, breaking a rally in crude prices. A bit of context: After what's happened over the last year, "rally" seems a bit of an overstatement.
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One big factor that may be driving prices down this week: The U.S. is pumping so much oil it's running out of places to stash it.
1 f$ {1 Z9 I7 I$ q3 i+ q% dCrude oil in storage in the U.S. has jumped to the highest levels in at least 80 years, according to a Bloomberg Industries analysis. The EIA this week reported that U.S. inventories rose 7.7 million barrels to 425.6 million. That's more than 20 percent higher than the five-year average.
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The buildup of supply has been "colossal" and is responsible for oil prices falling this week, Thomas Finlon, director of Energy Analytics Group LLC, told Bloomberg News. 4 O5 u, z+ k" P' T0 \
Winter weather and refinery outages have contributed to the supply glut. Even when those conditions subside, topped-out inventories and continued production growth may continue to suppress oil prices for the near- and medium-term, according to Bloomberg Industries.
" R/ x4 H1 `0 h" `. M' }Meanwhile, the U.S. is pumping oil at a faster pace than any time since 1972.
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U.S. oil production since 1983. Source: EIA1 v* a* d; v3 f3 W2 N# Z
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