OIL PRICE MONITOR | September 18, 2015

September 18, 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 | September 18, 2015

September 18, 2015

Baker Hughes shows 842 active rigs as of September 18, 2015, lower by -6 from the previous week. Oil rigs decreased by -8 to 644 (ht: -9; vt-dir: +1) while gas-directed rigs increased by +2 to 198 (ht: +1; vt-dir: +1). Horizontal oil rigs decreased by -3 in Anadarko (TX) and Bakken (ND) and by -2 in Eagle Ford (TX). Gas-directed horizontal rigs increased by +2 to 7 rigs in Woodford (Arkoma).


NGL MARKET RECAP | September 16, 2015

September 16, 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 | September 16, 2015

September 16, 2015

U.S. crude oil inventories declined by -2104k bbl in the week ended September 11, while Cushing stocks fell by -1906k bbl. Distillate inventories increased by +3060k bbl and gasoline inventories rose by +2840k 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 : Fell by .....


CFTC COT | September 14, 2015

Commitments of Traders Report – September 14, 2015

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended September 08. 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, gasoil, heating oil and WTI , but decreased in natural gas during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas fell by -9.1k to -9.5k in futures and decreased by -10.5k.....


NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH | September 13, 2015

September 11, 2015

Baker Hughes shows 848 active rigs as of September 11, 2015, lower by -16 from the previous week. Oil rigs decreased by -10 to 652 (ht: -6; vt-dir: -4) while gas-directed rigs decreased by -6 to 196 (ht: -5; vt-dir: -1). Horizontal oil rigs decreased by -3 in Permian (TX) and by -1 in Anadarko (TX) and in Eagle Ford (TX) each. Gas-directed horizontal rigs declined by -2 to 10 rigs in Eagle Ford (TX).


OIL PRICE MONITOR | September 11, 2015

September 11, 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.


NGL MARKET RECAP | September 10, 2015

September 10, 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 | September 10, 2015

September 10, 2015

U.S. crude oil inventories grew by +2570k bbl in the week ended September 04, while Cushing stocks declined by -897k bbl. Distillate inventories increased by +952k bbl and gasoline inventories grew by +384k 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 : Rose by +2......


CFTC COT | September 07, 2015

Commitments of Traders Report – September 07, 2015

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended September 01. 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, gasoil, heating oil and WTI during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas rose by +6.0k to -0.4k in futures and grew by +0.6k to -0.7k in futures and.....