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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

Oil demand growing at slowest rate since height of pandemic, says IEA

A boy walks by an oil pump at sunset
Overall oil demand this year is expected to reach 103m barrels a day. The slow growth in demand has been attributed to China’s weakening economy. Photograph: Hasan Jamali/AP

The world’s demand for oil is growing at its slowest pace since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, causing global market prices to slump to three year-lows, the International Energy Agency has said.

The global energy watchdog used its closely watched monthly report to warn the industry that oil market prices could continue to fall as the leading producers kept pumping out more crude than the world could consume.

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