Brent Crude Oil Forecast: 92.00 Backed by a Supply Gap
- Brent trades at $92.00, up 0.37% on the day and holding above every moving average on the four-hour chart.
- The IEA's August report doubled its third-quarter deficit estimate to 1.8 mb/d with Gulf supply still disrupted.
- $90.91 is the level that decides whether the recovery from the early-August low continues.
Fundamental Analysis: Brent Crude Oil
The supply side is doing all the work. In its August Oil Market Report the IEA put the third-quarter balance at a deficit of 1.8 mb/d, double the estimate it published a month earlier, with a substantial volume of Gulf production still offline. Observed inventories fell 69 mb in July alone and are down roughly 410 mb since late February, an average draw of about 2.7 mb/d.
Production is not filling the hole. OPEC+ output reached 34.53 mb/d in July, some 6.02 mb/d below the group's own targets, with the OPEC-8 undershooting by 4.58 mb/d. Global supply of 101.5 mb/d in July was higher month on month but still leaves the market drawing down stocks rather than rebuilding them.
The offset is demand, and it is a real one. The IEA sees global consumption contracting 1.6 mb/d across 2026 before rebounding 2.4 mb/d in 2027, with the annual contraction easing from 4.9 mb/d in the second quarter to 2.8 mb/d in the third. High prices are destroying demand at the same time as disruption is destroying supply, and that is why July's trading range spanned almost $40 a barrel.
Technical Analysis: Brent Crude Oil
The structure starts with the slide from roughly $97 on 26 July to a low near $78.50 on 6 August. The recovery since has been methodical rather than explosive: a spike to $93 around 11 August, a pullback to $87, and then a sequence of higher lows back to $92.00. The averages are now stacked bullishly at $90.91, $89.14, $87.67 and $86.61, with price above all four.
Resistance is $93.00, then $94.00 and the $96-$97 area where July's decline began. Support is the $90.91 fast average, then $89.14, with $87.67 the deeper shelf. A four-hour close under $89.14 would break the higher-low sequence and put the mid-$80s back in play.
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