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.


CFTC COT | December 16, 2011

Commitment of Traders Report - December 16, 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 and gasoline but declined in heating oil during the week ended December 13. Non-commercials decreased net length in WTI by 1.4k .....


OIL PRICE MONITOR | December 16, 2011

December 16, 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 16, 2011

Schlumberger (Smith) Rigs

STATS shows 1,863 active rigs as of December 16, 2011, down -4 rigs from a week ago. Oil rigs rose by +8 (ht: +4, vt-dir: +4) and gas rigs fell by -12 (ht: -4, vt-dir: -8).


DOE CRUDE STATS | December 14, 2011

December 14, 2011

U.S. crude oil inventories declined by -1,932k bbl in the week ending December 9, while Cushing stocks built +83k bbl. Distillate inventories increased by +480k bbl and gasoline inventories posted a gain of +3,824k bbl.


OIL PRICE MONITOR | December 09, 2011

December 9, 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 09, 2011

Commitment of Traders Report - December 9, 2011

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended December 6. 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 increased in WTI and gasoline and decreased in heating oil during the week ended December 6. Non-commercials reduced net length in WTI by 1.6k to .....