DOE CRUDE STATS
| February 24, 2011
Midcontinent maintenance
DOE CRUDE STATS Midcontinent maintenance This week’s apparent demand estimates show gasoline and distillate moving in opposite directions, with gasoline up 290 kb/d on the week and distillate down 330 kb/d. Though these estimates would be suggestive of impending gasoline strength, we are taking them with a grain of salt as they cover a period ahead of a holiday weekend, when refiners were likely to push additional gasoline out to wholesalers and to dial back distillate sales a bit (appar.....
CFTC COT
| February 18, 2011
February 18, 2011
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ending February 15. 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 non-commercial net short position strengthened in the natural gas market and reached a new record low (since the CFTC started releasing disaggregated data in January 20.....
DOE CRUDE STATS
| February 16, 2011
Conspiracy theories
DOE CRUDE STATS Conspiracy theories From the demand estimates to storage numbers, this week’s EIA stats are filled with interesting points. Apparent demand for key products gained considerably as drivers enjoyed a week devoid of major snowstorms. The storage numbers should grab most attention, particularly the +250k bbl build at Cushing, which should continue to weigh on the front of the WTI curve. The opening of the Keystone extension to Cushing will likely garner most credit for ri.....
CFTC COT
| February 11, 2011
February 11, 2011
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ending February 8. 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 in WTI slightly and reduced net length in gasoline and heating oil this week. Net longs rose by 2.2k to 228.5k in futures only and by 8......
DOE CRUDE STATS
| February 09, 2011
Can Cushing Clean Up?
DOE CRUDE STATS Can Cushing clean up? Total apparent demand (product supplied) jumped 0.5 mb/d, but the increase was mostly attributable to a 0.55 mb/d gain in other oils. Both gasoline and distillate apparent demand have continued to sputter along, hindered by a winter of repeated snowstorms disrupting ground travel; four-week average demand for the two products are basically flat with last year’s very low levels. Meanwhile, Cushing abruptly reversed the past two weeks of contraseasonal.....
CFTC COT
| February 04, 2011
February 04, 2011
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ending February 1. 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 was flat in heating oil this week. Net longs rose by 21.6k to 226.3k in futures only and by 28.0k to 291.6k in fu.....
DOE CRUDE STATS
| February 02, 2011
Does it take PADD II to contango?
Does it take PADD II to contango? Apparent demand estimates continued to exhibit weakness across the board this week. Only distillate demonstrated significant w-o-w gains (+180 kb/d), though four-week average apparent distillate demand continues to plumb the depths of 2009-10 levels. Meanwhile, a surge of gasoline imports contributed to a big +6.2m bbl build of gasoline inventories to a new record above 236m bbl. But the market’s attention will likely remain focused on Cushing crude inventor.....
CFTC COT
| January 28, 2011
January 28, 2011
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ending January 25. 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 across the petroleum complex this week. Net longs fell by 20.8k to 204.6k in futures only and by 22.5k to 263.6k in futures and options comb.....
DOE CRUDE STATS
| January 26, 2011
January 26, 2011
DOE CRUDE STATS 1/21/11 1/14/11 w.o.w. Bloomberg Median US crude inventories 340.6 335.7 4.84 1.20 Cushing crude inventories 37.7 36.8 0.86 US gasoline inventories 230.1 227.7 2.40 2.30 US distillate inventories 165.7 165.8 (0.10) (0.50) US refinery input 14,127 14,339 (212) US crude imports 9,385 8,999 386 Please see attached PDF file for detailed stats and charts. There will be no commentary today.
CFTC COT
| January 21, 2011
January 21, 2011
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ending January 18. 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. Though noncommercial net length was little changed across the petroleum complex, noncommercial traders became increasingly short natural gas for the second week in a row. Afte.....