CFTC COT | January 11, 2016
Commitments of Traders Report – January 11, 2016
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended January 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, gasoline, natural gas and heating oil , but decreased in gasoil and WTI during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas grew by +52.6k to -26.7k in futures and increased by +52.....
OIL PRICE MONITOR | January 09, 2016
January 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.
NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH | January 08, 2016
January 8, 2016
Baker Hughes shows 664 active rigs as of January 8, 2016, lower by -34 from the previous week. Oil rigs decreased by -20 to 516 (ht: -16; vt-dir: -4) while gas-directed rigs dropped by -14 to 148 (ht: -14; vt-dir: unch). Horizontal oil rigs decreased by -4 in Permian (NM), by -3 in Bakken (ND), by -2 in Anadarko (OK) and by -2 in Anadarko (TX), while Marcellus (WV) saw its horizontal gas rigs drop by -4.
DOE CRUDE STATS | January 06, 2016
REPOST: DOE Report: January 06, 2016
The weekly data for 2016 in the previous version was not visible in the charts (pages 1-6). This version updates the charts. There are no other changes. U.S. crude oil inventories fell by -5085k bbl in the week ended January 01, while Cushing stocks increased by +917k bbl. Distillate inventories rose by +6308k bbl and gasoline inventories increased by +10576k bbl. We also remind our clients that in-depth analysis of DOE weekly petroleum statistical releases can be conducted using the “Comm.....
CFTC COT | January 04, 2016
Commitments of Traders Report – January 4, 2016
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended December 29. We provide all Legacy and Disaggregated trader positions for natural gas, WTI , Brent, gasoline, heating oil and gasoil. Non-commercials increased net length in gasoline, natural gas, heating oil and WTI , but decreased in Brent and gasoil during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas increased by +27.5k to -79.3k in futures and grew by +2.....
OIL PRICE MONITOR | December 31, 2015
December 31, 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 | December 31, 2015
December 31, 2015
Baker Hughes shows 698 active rigs as of December 31, 2015, lower by -2 from the previous week. Oil rigs decreased by -2 to 538 (ht: -4; vt-dir: +2) while gas-directed rigs were unchanged at 162 (ht: -1; vt-dir: +1). Horizontal oil rigs decreased by -2 in Bakken (ND), while gas-directed horizontal rigs were relatively unchanged.
DOE CRUDE STATS | December 30, 2015
DOE Report: December 30, 2015
U.S. crude oil inventories rose by +2629k bbl in the week ended December 25, while Cushing stocks grew by +892k bbl. Distillate inventories increased by +1795k bbl and gasoline inventories rose by +925k 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 +2.63m .....
CFTC COT | December 28, 2015
Commitments of Traders Report – December 28, 2015
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended December 22. We provide all Legacy and Disaggregated trader positions for natural gas, WTI , Brent, gasoline, heating oil and gasoil. Non-commercials increased net length in gasoil and heating oil , but decreased in Brent, gasoline, natural gas and WTI during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas decreased by -13.2k to -106.8k in futures and fell by -.....
NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH | December 24, 2015
December 24, 2015
Baker Hughes shows 700 active rigs as of December 24, 2015, lower by -9 from the previous week. Oil rigs decreased by -3 to 538 (ht: unch; vt-dir: -3) while gas-directed rigs decreased by -6 to 162 (ht: -5; vt-dir: -1). Horizontal oil rigs decreased by -4 in Bakken (ND), while increasing by +2 in Anadarko (OK). Gas-directed horizontal rigs decreased by -2 to 1 in Fayetteville (AR).