LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices ticked up on Friday on track for a weekly gain of about 9%, after Saudi Arabia pressed allies to stick to production quotas and banks including Goldman Sachs predicted a supply deficit.
Brent crude LCOc1 was up 14 cents at $43.44 a barrel by 1000 GMT while U.S. oil futures CLc1 rose 9 cents to $41.06, having briefly dipped into negative territory.
Both contracts are set for their strongest weekly gains since early June after Hurricane Sally cut U.S. production and OPEC and its allies laid out steps to address market weakness.
Goldman Sachs predicted a market deficit of 3 million barrels per day (bpd) by the fourth quarter and reiterated its target for Brent to reach $49 by the end of the year and $65 by the third quarter of 2021.
Swiss bank UBS also pointed to the possibility of undersupply, forecasting Brent would rise to $45 a barrel in the fourth quarter and to $55 by mid-2021.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producers, a group known as OPEC+, are cutting output by 7.7 million bpd and stressed at a meeting on Thursday that it would take action against members not complying with the deal.
The Saudi Arabian energy minister said those who gamble on oil prices would be hurt “like hell”.
“We think (OPEC+) will put on hold plans to taper the cut down to 5.8 million bpd ... when the entire group convenes again in December,” RBC analysts said.
Saudi Arabia said an earlier meeting was possible if oil prices fell alongside demand because of a second wave of coronavirus cases.
In the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. producers started rebooting idle rigs following a five-day closure due to Hurricane Sally.
A tropical depression in the western part of the Gulf of Mexico could become a hurricane in the next few days, potentially threatening more U.S. oil facilities.
Additional reporting by Aaron Sheldrick; editing by David Clarke and Jason Neely
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