CFTC COT
| August 17, 2015
Commitments of Traders Report – August 17, 2015
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended August 11. 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 and gasoil , but decreased in Brent, heating oil and WTI during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas rose by +5.8k to +33.3k in futures and grew by +2.6k to +.....
OIL PRICE MONITOR
| August 14, 2015
August 14, 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
| August 14, 2015
August 14, 2015
Baker Hughes shows 883 active rigs as of August 14, 2015, unchanged from the previous week. Oil rigs increased by +2 to 672 (ht: +6; vt-dir: -4) while gas-directed rigs decreased by -2 to 213 (ht: -2; vt-dir: unch). Horizontal oil rigs increased by +7 in Permian (TX) and by +4 in Eagle Ford (TX), while declining by -3 in Bakken (ND) and Permian (NM). Vertical/Directional oil rigs declined by -6 in Permian (TX). Gas-directed horizontal rigs declined by -3 in Eagle Ford (TX).
NGL MARKET RECAP
| August 12, 2015
August 12, 2015
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
| August 12, 2015
August 12, 2015
U.S. crude oil inventories declined by -1682k bbl in the week ended August 07, while Cushing stocks decreased by -51k bbl. Distillate inventories grew by +2994k bbl and gasoline inventories decreased by -1251k 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 : Declined.....
CFTC COT
| August 10, 2015
Commitments of Traders Report – August 10, 2015
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended August 04. 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 WTI , but decreased in Brent, gasoline, natural gas and heating oil during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas grew by +6.9k to +27.5k in futures and declined by -0.1k .....
OIL PRICE MONITOR
| August 07, 2015
August 7, 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
| August 07, 2015
August 7, 2015
Baker Hughes shows 883 active rigs as of August 7, 2015, higher by +10 from the previous week. Oil rigs increased by +6 to 670 (ht: +6; vt-dir: +0) while gas-directed rigs increased by +4 to 213 (ht: +2; vt-dir: +2). Horizontal oil rigs increased by +4 in Permian (TX) and by +2 in Anadarko (OK). Gas-directed horizontal rigs increased by +4 in Marcellus (WV) and decreased by -2 in Marcellus ( SWPA ).
NGL MARKET RECAP
| August 06, 2015
August 6, 2015
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
| August 05, 2015
August 05, 2015
U.S. crude oil inventories declined by -4407k bbl in the week ended July 31, while Cushing stocks decreased by -542k bbl. Distillate inventories grew by +709k bbl and gasoline inventories increased by +811k 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 : Declined by.....