NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH | January 06, 2012

Schlumberger (Smith) Rigs

STATS shows 1,849 active rigs as of January 6, 2012, down -26 rigs from a week ago. Oil rigs rose by +1 (ht: +5, vt-dir: -4) and total gas rigs dropped by -27 (ht: -31, vt-dir: +4). West Virginia Marcellus horizontal gas rigs dropped by -14, from 42 to 28. Moreover, total number of horizontal oil rigs in WV remained zero, suggestion the sharp drop is not due to rig re-classification. It is likely that the suspension of operations at five wells used for disposing of hydraulic fracturing flowb.....


DOE CRUDE STATS | January 05, 2012

January 5, 2012

U.S. crude oil inventories rose by +2,209k bbl in the week ending December 30, while Cushing stocks drew -613k bbl. Distillate inventories increased by +3,224k bbl and gasoline inventories posted a gain of +2,479k bbl.


CFTC COT | December 30, 2011

Commitment of Traders Report - December 30, 2011

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended December 13. 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 climbed in WTI , gasoline and heating oil during the week ended December 27. Non-commercials increased net length in WTI by 11.5k to 201.2k in f.....


OIL PRICE MONITOR | December 30, 2011

December 30, 2011

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 weekly DOE EIA data.


NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH | December 30, 2011

Schlumberger (Smith) Rigs

STATS shows 1,875 active rigs as of December 30, 2011, up +2 rigs from a week ago. Oil rigs rose by +1 (ht: +5, vt-dir: -4) and total gas rigs rose by +1 (ht: unch, vt-dir: +1).


DOE CRUDE STATS | December 29, 2011

December 29, 2011

U.S. crude oil inventories rose by +3,899k bbl in the week ending December 23, while Cushing stocks drew -289k bbl. Distillate inventories increased by +1,205k bbl and gasoline inventories posted a draw of -692k bbl.


OIL PRICE MONITOR | December 23, 2011

December 23, 2011

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 weekly DOE EIA data.


CFTC COT | December 23, 2011

Commitment of Traders Report - December 23, 2011

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended December 20. 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 in WTI , gasoline and heating oil during the week ended December 20. Non-commercials decreased net length in WTI by 11.4k to 189.6k in .....


NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH | December 23, 2011

Schlumberger (Smith) Rigs

STATS shows 1,873 active rigs as of December 23, 2011, up +10 rigs from a week ago. Oil rigs rose by +10 (ht: +14, vt-dir: -4) and total gas rigs remained unchanged (ht: +4, vt-dir: -4).


DOE CRUDE STATS | December 21, 2011

December 21, 2011

U.S. crude oil inventories declined by -10.57m bbl in the week ending December 16, while Cushing stocks drew -990k bbl. Distillate inventories decreased by -2.35m bbl and gasoline inventories posted a draw of -412k bbl.