OIL PRICE MONITOR | December 09, 2011

December 9, 2011

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 weekly DOE EIA data.


CFTC COT | December 09, 2011

Commitment of Traders Report - December 9, 2011

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended December 6. We focus on net length of non-commercial traders as well as net length of money managers and swap dealers as indicated in the disaggregated data for WTI , natural gas, gasoline, and heating oil. Non-commercial net length increased in WTI and gasoline and decreased in heating oil during the week ended December 6. Non-commercials reduced net length in WTI by 1.6k to .....


NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH | December 09, 2011

Schlumberger (Smith) STATS

STATS shows 1,867 active rigs as of December 9, 2011, up +4 rigs from a week ago. Oil rigs rose by +8 (ht: +10, vt-dir: -2) and gas rigs fell by -4 (ht: -2, vt-dir: -2).


DOE CRUDE STATS | December 07, 2011

December 07, 2011

U.S. crude oil inventories rose by +1,336k bbl in the week ended December 2, while Cushing stocks drew -196k bbl. Distillate inventories grew by +2,533k bbl and gasoline inventories posted a massive increase of +5,147k bbl.


CFTC COT | December 02, 2011

Commitment of Traders Report - December 2, 2011

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended November 29. We focus on net length of non-commercial traders as well as net length of money managers and swap dealers as indicated in the disaggregated data for WTI , natural gas, gasoline, and heating oil. Non-commercials reduced net length slightly across the petroleum complex during the week ended November 29. Non-commercial net length rose by 2.7k to 204.0k in futures, and fe.....


OIL PRICE MONITOR | December 02, 2011

December 2, 2011

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 weekly DOE EIA data.


NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH | December 02, 2011

Schlumberger (Smith) STATS

STATS shows 1,863 active rigs as of December 2, 2011, down -4 rigs from a week ago. Oil rigs rose by +16 (ht: +10, vt-dir: +6) and gas rigs fell by -20 (ht: -19, vt-dir: -1).


DOE CRUDE STATS | November 30, 2011

November 30, 2011

After three weeks of declines totaling -8,645k bbl, U.S. crude oil inventories rose by +3,932k bbl in the week ended November 25, while Cushing stocks drew -715k bbl. Distillate inventories grew by +5,526k bbl and gasoline inventories posted a small increase of +213k bbl.


CFTC COT | November 28, 2011

Commitment of Traders Report - November 22, 2011

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended November 22. We focus on net length of non-commercial traders as well as net length of money managers and swap dealers as indicated in the disaggregated data for WTI , natural gas, gasoline, and heating oil. Non-commercial net length declined in WTI and gasoline, while the drop in heating oil was relatively small during the week ended November 22. WTI non-commercial net lengt.....


DOE CRUDE STATS | November 23, 2011

November 23, 2011

U.S. crude oil inventories declined by -6,219k bbl in the week ended November 18, while Cushing stocks drew -13k bbl. Distillate inventories declined by -770k bbl and gasoline inventories posted an increase of +4,475k bbl.