CFTC COT
| November 18, 2013
Commitments of Traders Report – November 18, 2013
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended November 12. We provide all Legacy and Disaggregated trader positions for natural gas, WTI , Brent, gasoline and heating oil. Non-commercials decreased net length in natural gas, Brent and heating oil, but increased in WTI and gasoline during the reference week. Non-commercials decreased net length in natural gas by -23.1 to +79.1k in futures and by -19.5 to +143.5k in futures a.....
OIL PRICE MONITOR
| November 15, 2013
November 15, 2013
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 crude loadings. Please note that Bloomberg temporarily suspended publishing pricing information for the items below. We will update our Oil Price Monitor as data becomes available again. Crude benchmarks: Urals Mediterranean Bonny Light Refined products: Si.....
NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH
| November 15, 2013
November 15, 2013
Baker Hughes shows 1,755 active rigs as of November 15, 2013, higher by +7 from the previous week. Oil rigs increased by +2 to 1,385 (ht: -2; vt-dir: +4) and gas-directed rigs increased by +5 to 370 (ht: +2; vt-dir: +3). Horizontal oil rigs decreased by -6 to 53 in areas of Texas not currently identified with an established resource play and increased by +4 to 148 in the Bakken (ND).
NGL MARKET RECAP
| November 14, 2013
November 14, 2013
In place of this week’s commentary we have included additional charts that expand our analysis of US propane inventories. These will be included on a monthly basis.
DOE CRUDE STATS
| November 14, 2013
November 14, 2013
U.S. crude oil inventories increased by +2640k bbl in the week ended November 08, while Cushing stocks rose by +1691k bbl. Distillate inventories fell by -481k bbl and gasoline inventories declined by -838k 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 by .....
CFTC COT
| November 11, 2013
Commitments of Traders Report – November 11, 2013
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended November 5. We provide all Legacy and Disaggregated trader positions for natural gas, WTI , Brent, gasoline and heating oil. Non-commercials decreased net length in natural gas, WTI , Brent, gasoline and heating oil during the reference week. Non-commercials decreased net length in natural gas by -65.6 to +102.2k in futures and by -64.1 to +163.0k in futures and options. The pric.....
OIL PRICE MONITOR
| November 08, 2013
November 8, 2013
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 crude loadings. Please note that Bloomberg temporarily suspended publishing pricing information for the items below. We will update our Oil Price Monitor as data becomes available again. Crude benchmarks: Urals Mediterranean Bonny Light Refined products: Si.....
NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH
| November 08, 2013
November 8, 2013
Baker Hughes shows 1,748 active rigs as of November 8, 2013, higher by +12 from the previous week. Oil rigs increased by +7 to 1,383 (ht: +9; vt-dir: -2) and gas-directed rigs increased by +5 to 365 (ht: +1; vt-dir: +4). Horizontal oil rigs increased by +9 to 143 in the Permian (TX) and by +5 to 177 Eagle Ford (TX). Gas-directed horizontal rigs fell by -2 to 15 in the Eagle Ford (TX) but increased by +1 to 19 and 16 in the Marcellus ( SWPA ) and Ohio, respectively.
CFTC COT
| November 07, 2013
Commitments of Traders Report – November 6, 2013
Today, the CFTC published its fifth Commitments of Traders ( COT ) report since the U.S. government shutdown. It includes data for reported date of October 29, and was originally scheduled to be published on November 1. As ICE data was published without interruption, today’s report includes all activity through October 29. The CFTC will resume its normal reporting schedule on November 8 when it publishes the November 5 dated report. Please find attached data and charts detailing the lat.....
NGL MARKET RECAP
| November 06, 2013
November 1, 2013
In Focus: Gulf coast fractionation expansions Nearly 250 kb/d of fractionation capacity has come online at Mont Belvieu since September, including Enterprise’s train 7, Oneok’s MB-2, and recently a second Lone Star train. Enterprise hopes to bring an eighth, 100 kb/d train online before the end of the year. Through 2015, another 445 kb/d of fractionation capacity is expected to be built at Mont Belvieu that will work to process the influx of y-grade coming in from as far away as the Bakken a.....