U.S. NATURAL GAS TRADE AND POWER SECTOR DEMAND | December 22, 2015

December 22, 2015

Starting this week, the “US Natural Gas Net Trade Report” and the “US Power Sector NG Demand Report” will be combined into a single publication. The new “U.S. Natural Gas Trade and Power Sector Demand” report incorporates EIA’s new storage regions and our updated models. Please find attached data and charts detailing U. S. gas imports and power demand for the week ended December 17, 2015. Total net imports for the reference week averaged 1.29 bcf/d, lower by -0.95 bcf/d week-on-week. D.....


CFTC COT | December 21, 2015

December 21, 2015

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended December 15. 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, heating oil and WTI , but decreased in Brent and gasoil during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas rose by +7.8k to -93.6k in futures and grew by +6.8k to.....


NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH | December 18, 2015

December 18, 2015

Baker Hughes shows 709 active rigs as of December 18, 2015, unchanged from the previous week. Oil rigs increased by +17 to 541 (ht: +10; vt-dir: +7) while gas-directed rigs decreased by -17 to 168 (ht: -5; vt-dir: -12). Horizontal oil rigs increased by +2 in Eagle Ford (TX) and Permian (TX). Gas-directed horizontal rigs decreased by -4 in Marcellus ( SWPA ), while increasing by +3 in Marcellus (WV).


EIA NG STORAGE REPORT | December 17, 2015

December 17, 2015

Please note our extended U.S. and Canada tables covering the remainder of the withdrawal season are included in the attachment. We overwrite weekly estimates with monthly releases as monthly EIA data becomes available. The EIA reported a -34 bcf withdrawal for the week ending December 10, coming in lighter than our own number at -38 bcf and the Bloomberg median at -40 bcf. After a few weeks of bullish surprises from the EIA , the market seems to have adjusted its expectations towards str.....


NGL MARKET RECAP | December 16, 2015

December 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.


CFTC COT | December 14, 2015

Commitments of Traders Report – December 14, 2015

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended December 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, natural gas, gasoil and heating oil , but decreased in gasoline and WTI during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas decreased by -2.3k to -101.5k in futures and rose by +1.....


NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH | December 11, 2015

December 11, 2015

Baker Hughes shows 709 active rigs as of December 11, 2015, lower by -28 from the previous week. Oil rigs decreased by -21 to 524 (ht: -11; vt-dir: -10) while gas-directed rigs decreased by -7 to 185 (ht: -4; vt-dir: -3). Horizontal oil rigs decreased by -4 in Permian (TX) and by -2 in Bakken (ND) and Permian (NM). Gas-directed horizontal rigs increased by +2 to 19 in Marcellus ( SWPA ).


EIA NG STORAGE REPORT | December 10, 2015

December 10, 2015

The EIA reported a -76 bcf withdrawal for the week ending December 3, coming in stronger than our own number at -67 bcf and the Bloomberg median at -65 bcf. Regionally most of the surprise came from the withdrawal reported by salt-dome facilities given that we observed an injection of over 4 bcf from interstate pipeline flows. The overall withdrawal was also quite stronger than market expectations, which had already been boosted from a mid-50s pull, following large draws reported by the big st.....


NGL MARKET RECAP | December 09, 2015

December 9, 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.


CFTC COT | December 07, 2015

Commitments of Traders Report – December 07, 2015

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended December 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 gasoline, natural gas and heating oil , but decreased in Brent, gasoil and WTI during the reference week. Non-commercials net length in natural gas rose by +12.9k to -99.2k in futures and increased by +9.....