{"id":13296,"date":"2025-02-13T05:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T05:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=13296"},"modified":"2025-02-13T05:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T05:41:14","slug":"irans-heavy-crude-oil-prices-surge-in-january-opec-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/13296\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s heavy crude oil prices surge in January, OPEC reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0According to the latest monthly report from OPEC, Iran\u2019s heavy crude oil prices rose significantly in January, increasing by $6.65, or 9.1%, compared to December, 2024.<\/p>\n<div class=\"item-body\">\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The price of Iran\u2019s heavy crude oil reached $79.65 per barrel in January.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">OPEC\u2019s February report also revealed that Iran maintained its position as the third-largest producer in the organization, with daily production of 3.28 million barrels in January.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.shana.ir\/d\/2025\/02\/12\/4\/464326.jpg?ts=1739379346000\" alt=\"Iran\u2019s heavy crude oil prices surge in January, OPEC reports\" width=\"731\" height=\"573\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>OPEC Production Declines Slightly in January<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Secondary sources cited in OPEC\u2019s February report indicated that the organization\u2019s 12 members produced 26.678 million barrels per day (bpd) in January, a decrease of 121,000 bpd from December\u2019s 26.8 million bpd.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran were the top three producers in OPEC for January 2025. Saudi Arabia led with 8.937 million bpd, followed by Iraq with 3.999 million bpd, and Iran with 3.28 million bpd.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, OPEC+ members produced 13.947 million bpd in January, a slight increase of 3,000 bpd from December\u2019s 13.943 million bpd.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.shana.ir\/d\/2025\/02\/12\/4\/464327.jpg?ts=1739379428000\" alt=\"Iran\u2019s heavy crude oil prices surge in January, OPEC reports\" width=\"731\" height=\"532\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Combined OPEC+ output drops in January<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Total crude oil production by OPEC and its allies reached 40.625 million bpd in January, down 118,000 bpd from December\u2019s 40.743 million bpd.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Iran\u2019s heavy crude prices and OPEC basket rise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">OPEC\u2019s latest monthly report highlighted that Iran\u2019s heavy crude oil prices in January 2025 averaged $79.65 per barrel, up from $73 per barrel in December.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The average price of Iran\u2019s heavy crude in 2024 was $80.14 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The OPEC basket price also increased in January, reaching $79.38 per barrel, a rise of $6.31 (8.6%) compared to December 2024.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Global oil demand projections for 2025, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">OPEC\u2019s February report projected that global crude oil demand in 2025 would increase by 1.45 million bpd, reaching a total of 105.2 million bpd.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.shana.ir\/d\/2025\/02\/12\/4\/464328.jpg?ts=1739379491000\" alt=\"Iran\u2019s heavy crude oil prices surge in January, OPEC reports\" width=\"731\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0The organization also forecasted that global oil demand in 2026 would rise by 1.43 million bpd, reaching 106.63 million bpd.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2025-02-13T05:41:14+00:00\"> 13 February 2025<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the latest monthly report from OPEC, Iran\u2019s heavy crude oil prices rose significantly in January, increasing by $6.65, or 9.1%, compared to December, 2024.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,18,22,36,19,16,1],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-13296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-headline","category-iran","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-opec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13296"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=13296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}