NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH | September 23, 2011

Schlumberger (Smith) STATS

STATS shows 1,830 active rigs as of September 23, 2011, up +13 rigs from a week ago. Oil rigs were up by +3 (ht: -5, vt-dir: +8) and gas rigs were up by +10 (ht: +2, vt-dir: +8).


DOE CRUDE STATS | September 21, 2011

September 21, 2011

September 21, 2011 U.S. commercial crude inventories posted a sizeable draw this week, declining -7.34m bbl to 339.0m bbl. The string of crude draws over the last three weeks have sent stocks 18.0m bbl lower to a level not seen since last January. Nearly the entire last three weeks’ draw has occurred in PADD III , where storage has fallen a sharp -17.4m bbl. All planned SPR volumes appear to have been delivered as of the reference week ended September 9. Crude runs increased 283 kb/d w-o-.....


CFTC COT | September 16, 2011

Commitment of Traders Report - September 16, 2011

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended September 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. It was another mixed but moderate week for the petroleum complex during the week ended September 13, with non-commercial net length registering a small increase in WTI and .....


OIL PRICE MONITOR | September 16, 2011

September 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 | September 16, 2011

Schlumberger (Smith) STATS

STATS shows 1,817 active rigs as of September 16, 2011, up +19 rigs from a week ago. Oil rigs were up by +7 (ht: -6, vt-dir: +13) and gas rigs were up by +12 (ht: +7, vt-dir: +5).


DOE CRUDE STATS | September 14, 2011

September 14, 2011

September 14, 2011 Crude production in the lower 48 saw its biggest one-week drop since September 2008 during the reference week, plummeting 569 kb/d to 4.51 mb/d on account of Tropical Storm Lee. The last time PADD III production was interrupted to such an extent was Hurricane Ike in 2008, though it ultimately caused a much more severe production loss of 3.79 mb/d. The impact of weather on crude imports into PADD III during the reference week was apparently minor, as imports declined .....


NORTH AMERICAN RIG WATCH | September 09, 2011

Schlumberger (Smith) STATS

Due to technical difficulties, the release of this report was delayed. We apologize for any inconvenience. STATS shows 1,798 active rigs as of September 9, 2011, up +6 rigs from a week ago. Oil rigs were up by +13 (ht: +18, vt-dir: -5), and gas rigs were down by -7 (ht: -6, vt-dir: -1).


CFTC COT | September 09, 2011

Commitment of Traders Report - September 9, 2011

Please find attached data and charts detailing the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders Report for the week ended September 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. The petroleum complex was mixed during the week ended September 6 with a slight decline in non-commercial net length in WTI and mild increases in non-commercial net length i.....


OIL PRICE MONITOR | September 09, 2011

September 09, 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.


DOE CRUDE STATS | September 08, 2011

September 08, 2011

September 8, 2011 Perhaps the most vivid illustration of Hurricane Irene’s impact on the U.S. crude oil activity is the 420 kb/d drop in crude refinery runs in PADD I during the reference week, the single largest one-week decline ever recorded in the district. In hindsight, last week’s 589 kb/d jump in crude imports along the East Coast can be interpreted as likely precautionary offloading before Irene struck, so this week’s 769 kb/d drop was largely a drop-back after the prior week’s high. .....