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Oil market outlook: Oil exporters adjustment to the new dynamics
1. session 2
Oil market outlook: Oil exporters adjustment to the
new dynamics
Arab Oil Exporters: Coping with a New Global Oil Order
Kuwait city - Nov. 26-27, 2017
Majid AL MONEEF
2. Five determining factors impacting the Long Term Oil Market Outlook
1. Technological advancements and cost advantages of renewables, electric vehicles and smart
mobility.
2. The commitment to Paris-21 outcome with or without the U.S
3. Leading role of China in the emerging energy landscape: in renewables, EVs and UNFCC
4. The changing trade patterns in oil and gas and with it the emerging geopolitics
5. The reviving role of the U.S in global oil and gas production and its changing energy
proprieties.
Five potential factors determining the impact on Arab oil and gas exporters?
1. The degree of dependence on oil and gas to fuel economic growth
2. The adaptability to oil price swings or demand decline
3. Forming business, economic and political alliances and relations in response to the emerging
oil and gas patterns
4. Crafting new fiscal, energy, labor and industrial policies in response to the outlook
5. Redefining the future role of the state and the private sector in the economy
Outline
4. Oil Price Cycles: Downturns Last Longer and volatility persisted
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Price $ 3-36
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2nd Boom 11 Yrs
Price $ 38-112
Real $85/bl
Downturn 22 Yrs
Price $ 14-33
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✓ Many indicators that the current cycle is more structural than cyclical
✓ Current oil prices could last much longer
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1. Efficiency gains in energy and oil in all sectors and regions
✓ Oil intensity declining from 0.55bl/$1000 to 0.3 now and 0.15bl in 2040
✓ The only region in which intensity increased (lower efficiency) was GCC
6. 2. Renewables gaining ground: declining costs, favorable policies
and receptive public
✓ Increasing investments in renewables: from $70 in 2005 to $312 bn in 2105
✓ China is leading in investment and generation
8. 3. Technology and battery cost Breakthroughs in electric vehicles Sales and in
penetration along with changes in smart mobility
9. 3. Technology and battery cost Breakthroughs in electric vehicles Sales and
in penetration along with changes in mobility (Cont’d)
✓ Price of oil to make EVs competitive with ICE cars is projected to reach $64 by 2020
✓ Although many unresolved issues remain, the most optimistic scenario forecast oil demand loss 6-8 mbd
12. 4. On the supply side: Half the increase will be from non-conventionals & NGLs from gas
✓ Technology and cost efficiency improved recovery as well as shale oil economics
✓ Resource potentials increases in the $40-60/bl price. 75% of remaining shale resources generate 10%
return at $60 price
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4. The outlook is for larger role for Non-Conventional oil (shale and sands) declining
conventional in Non-OPEC & increasing share of OPEC (mostly conventional)
✓ The Gulf’s share in global production to increase from 33% to 40% in 2040
✓ Cumulative investment requirements in oil upstream and downstream: $ 20 tr, 70%
in non-OECD, 15% in the ME
15. The outlook implications
• The ability to and the speed of adjustment to the new normal is critical
• The GCC development model could not deliver:
▪ Lack of meaningful diversification of fiscal revenues, exports, GDP
▪ Non oil economy dependent on cheap energy
▪ A state led growth, with the private sector defendant on state spending and subsidies
▪ Segmented labor market: public and private, male and female, local and expatriate & the public sector
as the employer of last resort
▪ Distorted incentive systems and low factor productivity.
• Potential impacts on Arab oil and gas exporters?
▪ Change expectations: current oil market cycle will likely be long
▪ Limitations of over-dependence on extremely low domestic oil and gas prices and on their revenues to
fuel growth, increase employment and address inequality.
▪ How to adapt the economy to oil price swings or demand decline
▪ Fostering new trade relations and alliances in response to the emerging oil and gas patterns
▪ Setting up new fiscal, energy, labor, monetary and industrial policies
▪ Redefining the future roles of the state and the private sector and their relationships.
▪ Redesign the social contract ?
16. Impact of lower oil prices: GDP, fiscal and external sectors
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17. GCC Energy Price Reform: better late than never
Source: Chatham House Source: Chatham House
18. GCC Fiscal Reforms: room for more
Fiscal Consolidation
(% of Non-Oil GDP)
Decrease in Spending
to Balance the 2016 Budget
Spending cuts and
Non-Oil Revenue Increases
20. Economic reforms: the Way Forward
✓Strong regulatory and institutional frameworks needed to unlock private sector potential.
✓Change is needed in the public employment and wage policies and fiscal framework: closing the
wage gaps, rationalizing and prioritizing capital and current expenditures.
✓Policies and Strategies to foster the emergence of dynamic new tradable sectors to enhance
diversification
✓Address energy price distortions, putting energy intensity on a declining path & diversifying
energy mix
✓Foster horizontal and vertical diversification, diversify the oil & gas based manufacturing, further
integrating into the global value chain, and attracting FDI into the non-oil sector.
✓Ensure that the use of SWFs is governed by clear and transparent rules.
✓Develop strong regulatory, supervisory and macro-prudential frameworks to enhance resilience of
the financial sector to oil price volatility.
✓Transforming the state from an allocative to developmental, the private sector from agent to
partner and the economy from singular to diversified.
✓Identifying and dealing with the winners and losers in the reform process: eg. When phasing out
subsidies, enforcing local content, localizing the labor force, etc.