Standard Chartered: Oil Markets Can Easily Absorb Extra OPEC+ Barrels

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Oil markets kicked off the new year in a downbeat mood, with Wall Street analysts almost unanimously predicting a huge oversupply in 2025 even if OPEC+ did not add a single barrel back into the market. Well, it’s six months on, and oil markets have continued to defy these bearish expectations.   The eight OPEC+ countries that made additional voluntary cuts in 2023 are set to meet on July 6, with expectations that the ministers will continue the unwinding of the November 2023 tranche of cuts, increasing targets by 411 thousand barrels…