OIL PRICE MONITOR
| May 09, 2014
May 9, 2014
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: Singap.....
NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH
| May 09, 2014
May 9, 2014
Baker Hughes shows 1,851 active rigs as of May 9, 2014, higher by +1 from the previous week. Oil rigs increased by +1 to 1,528 (ht: -2; vt-dir: +3) while gas-directed rigs stayed the same at 323 (ht: -2; vt-dir: +2). Horizontal oil rigs decreased by -4 to 160 in the Bakken (ND) and vertical/directional oil rigs increased by +2 to 3 in Anadarko (KS). Gas-directed horizontal rigs increased by +3 to 14 in Granite Wash (TX).
NGL MARKET RECAP
| May 07, 2014
May 7, 2014
In Focus: Petrochemical update Some of the key issues on the minds of chemical companies – or at least the analysts that cover them – include ethane and propane exports, construction timelines for new cracking facilities in the U.S. and opportunities for chemical demand growth in international markets, particularly China. If there was any bias in their analyses, it would be in categorically bullish stances on supply and mostly bearish outlooks for feedstock prices.
DOE CRUDE STATS
| May 07, 2014
May 7, 2014
U.S. crude oil inventories fell by -1781k bbl in the week ended May 02, while Cushing stocks decreased by -1395k bbl. Distillate inventories declined by -447k bbl and gasoline inventories grew by +1608k 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 : Decreased by -1.....
CFTC COT
| May 05, 2014
Commitments of Traders Report – May 05, 2014
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended April 29. We provide all Legacy and Disaggregated trader positions for natural gas, WTI , Brent, gasoline and heating oil. Non-commercials increased net length in heating oil, Brent and gasoline , but decreased in natural gas and WTI during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas decreased by -24.7k to +384.7k in futures and fell by -18.2k to +515.6k in.....
OIL PRICE MONITOR
| May 02, 2014
May 2, 2014
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: Singap.....
NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH
| May 02, 2014
May 2, 2014
Baker Hughes shows 1,850 active rigs as of May 2, 2014, lower by -7 from the previous week. Oil rigs decreased by -7 to 1,527 (ht: +3; vt-dir: -10) while the number of gas-directed rigs stayed the same at 323 (ht: -1; vt-dir: +1). Horizontal oil rigs decreased by -3 to 39 in Anadarko (TX). Gas-directed horizontal rigs decreased by -3 to 21 in Marcellus ( NEPA ).
NGL MARKET RECAP
| April 30, 2014
April 30, 2014
In Focus: Bluegrass, ATEX and new ethane ships As plans for domestic pipeline infrastructure continue to change, Northeast storage capacity could be challenged and regional ethane recovery could surprise to the downside. At the same time, with new multi-purpose LNG ships announced to target the ethane/ethylene trade, we have more confidence in additional U.S. ethane exports. The announcement this week that the 400 kb/d Bluegrass pipeline has been taken off the project shelf supports incr.....
DOE CRUDE STATS
| April 30, 2014
April 30, 2014
U.S. crude oil inventories rose by +1698k bbl in the week ended April 25, while Cushing stocks decreased by -612k bbl. Distillate inventories grew by +1936k bbl and gasoline inventories rose by +1564k 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 +1.7.....
CFTC COT
| April 28, 2014
Commitments of Traders Report – April 28, 2014
Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended April 22. We provide all Legacy and Disaggregated trader positions for natural gas, WTI , Brent, gasoline and heating oil. Non-commercials increased net length in natural gas, heating oil, Brent and gasoline, but decreased in WTI during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas grew by +5.0k to +409.4k in futures and increased by +14.3k to +533.8k in futu.....