NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH | April 22, 2016

April 22, 2016

Baker Hughes shows 431 active rigs as of April 22, 2016, lower by -9 from the previous week. Oil rigs decreased by -8 to 343 (ht: -2; vt-dir: -6), while gas-directed rigs decreased by -1 to 88 (ht: -1; vt-dir: unch). Horizontal oil rigs decreased by -4 in Permian (TX) and by -3 in Eagle Ford (TX), but increased by +4 in areas of Texas not associated with any major play. On the gas side, Barnett (TX) lost its last rig, but there were no changes in other plays.


NGL MARKET RECAP | April 20, 2016

April 20, 2016

Attached is this week’s NGL Market Recap, which provides an overview of U.S. propane statistics as well as global LPG prices, ratios and fractionation spreads.


DOE CRUDE STATS | April 20, 2016

April 20, 2016

U.S. crude oil inventories increased by +2080k bbl in the week ended April 15, while Cushing stocks fell by -248k bbl. Distillate inventories declined by -3554k bbl and gasoline inventories decreased by -110k bbl. We also remind our clients that in-depth analysis of DOE weekly petroleum statistical releases can be conducted using the “Commodities Analytical Toolkit” in the Data Portal section of our website ( www.lcmc-research.com ). Major data points: Crude oil inventories : Grew by +.....


CFTC COT | April 18, 2016

Commitments of Traders Report – April 18, 2016

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended April 12. We provide all Legacy and Disaggregated trader positions for natural gas, WTI , Brent, gasoline, heating oil and gasoil. Non-commercials increased net length in Brent, gasoil, heating oil and WTI , but decreased in gasoline and natural gas during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas fell by -6.6k to +55.3k in futures and declined by -8.6k t.....


OIL PRICE MONITOR | April 15, 2016

April 15, 2016

Attached is this week’s Oil Price Monitor, which provides an overview of global oil market activity across a range of dimensions, from spot crude and product prices to forward curves, refining margins, product arbitrage, and freight rates.


NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH | April 15, 2016

April 15, 2016

Baker Hughes shows 440 active rigs as of April 15, 2016, lower by -3 from the previous week. Oil rigs decreased by -3 to 351 (ht: -6; vt-dir: +3) while gas-directed rigs were unchanged at 89 (ht: unch; vt-dir: unch). Horizontal oil rigs increased by +2 in Permian (NM) and by +1 in Anadarko (TX), but decreased by -4 in areas of Texas not associated with any major play. On the gas side, two new rigs moved into Woodford (Arkoma) restarting drilling activity in the region after the last rig went idl.....


NGL MARKET RECAP | April 13, 2016

April 13, 2016

Attached is this week’s NGL Market Recap, which provides an overview of U.S. propane statistics as well as global LPG prices, ratios and fractionation spreads.


DOE CRUDE STATS | April 13, 2016

DOE Report: April 13, 2016

U.S. crude oil inventories rose by +6634k bbl in the week ended April 08, while Cushing stocks decreased by -1767k bbl. Distillate inventories grew by +505k bbl and gasoline inventories declined by -4237k bbl. We also remind our clients that in-depth analysis of DOE weekly petroleum statistical releases can be conducted using the “Commodities Analytical Toolkit” in the Data Portal section of our website ( www.lcmc-research.com ). Major data points: Crude oil inventories : Increased by .....


CFTC COT | April 11, 2016

Commitments of Traders Report – April 11, 2016

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended April 05. We provide all Legacy and Disaggregated trader positions for natural gas, WTI , Brent, gasoline, heating oil and gasoil. Non-commercials increased net length in Brent and natural gas , but decreased in gasoline, gasoil, heating oil and WTI during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas rose by +37.9k to +61.9k in futures and grew by +39.6k to .....


OIL PRICE MONITOR | April 08, 2016

April 8, 2016

Attached is this week’s Oil Price Monitor, which provides an overview of global oil market activity across a range of dimensions, from spot crude and product prices to forward curves, refining margins, product arbitrage, and freight rates.