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Covid-19 pandemic punches 1.7-billion-barrel hole in global oil demand

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A fifth of global demand for oil will disappear this quarter. All three of the major forecasting agencies now agree that the world faces its biggest-ever slump in oil consumption, after governments imposed movement restrictions on billions of people to combat the coronavirus.

The scale of the demand hit means that despite producers implementing unprecedented output cuts, stockpiles will soar this year.

The International Energy Agency, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the U.S. Energy Information Administration have all updated their oil market forecasts in the past week and they have come into much closer alignment in their views of the depth of demand destruction.

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