OIL PRICE MONITOR
| February 27, 2015
February 27, 2015
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
| February 27, 2015
February 27, 2015
Baker Hughes shows 1,266 active rigs as of February 27, 2015, lower by -42 from the previous week. Oil rigs decreased by -33 to 986 (ht: -29; vt-dir: -4) while gas-directed rigs decreased by -9 to 280 (ht: -4; vt-dir: -5). Horizontal oil rigs decreased by -6 to 125 in the Eagle Ford (TX) whereas vertical/directional oil rigs increased by +3 to 82 in the Permian (TX). Gas-directed horizontal rigs decreased by -1 to 27 in Marcellus ( SWPA ).
NGL MARKET RECAP
| February 25, 2015
UPDATED PRODUCT: February 25, 2015
NGL Market Recap is back! 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
| February 25, 2015
DOE Report: February 25, 2015
U.S. crude oil inventories increased by +8427k bbl in the week ended February 20, while Cushing stocks grew by +2419k bbl. Distillate inventories declined by -2711k bbl and gasoline inventories fell by -3118k 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.....
CFTC COT
| February 23, 2015
Commitments of Traders Report – February 23, 2015
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended February 17. We provide all Legacy and Disaggregated trader positions for natural gas, WTI , Brent, gasoline and heating oil. Non-commercials increased net length in natural gas, heating oil and Brent , but decreased in gasoline and WTI during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas increased by +7.6k to -35.2k in futures and grew by +9.8k to +22.4k in .....
OIL PRICE MONITOR
| February 20, 2015
February 20, 2015
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
| February 20, 2015
February 20, 2015
Baker Hughes shows 1,308 active rigs as of February 20, 2015, lower by -48 from the previous week. Oil rigs decreased by -37 to 1,019 (ht: -32; vt-dir: -5) while gas-directed rigs decreased by -11 to 289 (ht: -14; vt-dir: +3). Horizontal oil rigs decreased by -7 to 131 in the Eagle Ford (TX) and vertical/directional oil rigs decreased by -11 to 79 in the Permian (TX). Gas-directed horizontal rigs decreased by -2 to 18 in the Eagle Ford (TX).
DOE CRUDE STATS
| February 19, 2015
DOE Report: February 19, 2015
U.S. crude oil inventories rose by +7716k bbl in the week ended February 13, while Cushing stocks grew by +3663k bbl. Distillate inventories decreased by -3814k bbl and gasoline inventories grew by +485k 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 : Rose by +7.72m.....
CFTC COT
| February 16, 2015
Commitments of Traders Report – February 16, 2015
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended February 10. We provide all Legacy and Disaggregated trader positions for natural gas, WTI , Brent, gasoline and heating oil. Non-commercials increased net length in Brent and WTI , but decreased in natural gas, heating oil and gasoline during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas fell by -15.0k to -42.8k in futures and declined by -11.5k to +12.6k in.....
OIL PRICE MONITOR
| February 13, 2015
February 13, 2015
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.