OIL PRICE MONITOR
| March 16, 2012
March 16, 2012
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
| March 16, 2012
Baker Hughes
Baker Hughes shows 1,980 active rigs as of March 16, 2012, up +14 rigs from a week ago. Oil rigs went up by +21 (ht: +21, vt-dir: unch) and total gas rigs fell by -7 (ht: -4, vt-dir: -3). Horizontal oil rigs went up by +7 in Anadarko (OK), followed by +3 in Permian (NM) and +2 in Anadarko (TX). Horizontal gas rigs went down by -8 in Haynesville (LA), while going up by +3 in Eagle Ford (TX) and +2 in Barnett (TX) and Woodford (Anadarko).
NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH
| March 16, 2012
Schlumberger (Smith) STATS
STATS shows 1,898 active rigs as of March 16, 2012, down -5 rigs from a week ago. Oil rigs went up by +20 (ht: +15, vt-dir: +5) and total gas rigs fell by -25 (ht: -16, vt-dir: -9). Horizontal oil rigs went up by +4 in Bakken (ND), followed by +3 in Anadarko (TX), while Permian (NM) added +4 vt-dir oil rigs. Horizontal gas rigs went down by -8 in Marcellus ( SWPA ) and by -7 in Haynesville (LA), while they went up by +3 in Marcellus (WV) and by +2 in Eagle Ford (TX).
DOE CRUDE STATS
| March 14, 2012
March 14, 2012
U.S. crude oil inventories increased by +1,750k bbl in the week ending March 9, while Cushing stocks built +2,519k bbl. Distillate inventories declined by -4,682k bbl and gasoline inventories dropped by -1,410k bbl.
CFTC COT
| March 09, 2012
Commitment of Traders Report - March 9, 2012
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended March 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. The week ended March 6 experienced a decline in non-commercial net length in WTI for the first time since December 20. Non-commercials reduced net length in WTI by 26.7k to 28.....
OIL PRICE MONITOR
| March 09, 2012
March 9, 2012
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
| March 09, 2012
Baker Hughes - NEW REPORT!
Dear clients, We are delighted to introduce our new report “U.S. Rig Watch – Baker Hughes.” This new report contains oil and gas rigs broken by type (horizontal and vertical/directional), by target (oil and gas), and by formation/state in an easy-to-follow layout. It has the identical template as its sister publication “U.S. Rig Watch – Schlumberger (Smith) STATS” to allow a direct comparison between the two sources. U.S. Rig Watch – Baker Hughes will be published Fridays shortly after sou.....
NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH
| March 09, 2012
Schlumberger (Smith) STATS
PLEASE NOTE : Starting today, LCMC will also publish a rig report based on Baker Hughes data. The new report will have the identical breakdown as the Schlumberger (Smith) STATS to allow a direct comparison between the two data sets. U.S. Rig Watch – Baker Hughes will be published Fridays shortly after source data becomes available. STATS shows 1,903 active rigs as of March 9, 2012, up +30 rigs from a week ago. Oil rigs went up by +32 (ht: +10, vt-dir: +22) and total gas rigs fell b.....
DOE CRUDE STATS
| March 07, 2012
March 7, 2012
U.S. crude oil inventories increased by +832k bbl in the week ending March 2, while Cushing stocks built +2,365k bbl. Distillate inventories declined by -1,944k bbl and gasoline inventories dropped by -396k bbl.
CFTC COT
| March 02, 2012
Commitment of Traders Report - March 2, 2012
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended February 28. 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 increased net length across the petroleum complex again during the week ended February 28. As news flow from Iran continued, non-commercial net length in WTI .....