The Energy And Market Page, T+174, Part III -- July 13, 2017

Camelot II is in Paris. Press conference pending.

Not riding Nvidia's coattails. XLNX is down slightly at the opening.

Saudi sends less oil to the US: according to Kemp. We'll see. If accurate, this will be quite interesting, on many levels. The big question: how much oil does Saudi's refinery in the US refine on a daily basis? If Saudi drops below the one-million-bbl threshold, that should be a headline. From Reuters: 

U.S. crude imports from Saudi Arabia averaged less than 900,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the four weeks ending on July 7, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

U.S. imports from Saudi Arabia are running at the slowest rate since 2015, and the slowest for the time of year for over five years.

Imports from Saudi Arabia will fall even further to less than 800,000 bpd in August, according to a Saudi industry source familiar with the kingdom's oil policy. 

The most recent data available at the EIA site is all the way back to April.

Prediction. Plan B. I bet Warren Buffett has a back-up plan if Elliot Management thwarts BRK's bid to buy Oncor.

Whopping (their words, not mine). Old news. OPEC's production cuts (wink, wink). From 24/7 Wall Street:

In its monthly Oil Market Report for July released Thursday morning, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said that global crude supplies rose by a whopping 720,000 barrels per day in June, due to increases from both OPEC and non-OPEC producers. Total output was 97.46 million barrels a day, up by 770,000 barrels a day.

Commercial inventories in May in OECD countries totaled 3.047 billion barrels, up by 6 million barrels from the April total. OECD stockpiles are now 266 million barrels above the five-year average, down by 34 million barrels from the prior month's total. The IEA said that preliminary indications show a "moderate reduction" in June stockpiles.
Much, much more at the link.

Much, much more at the link. As I've said before, the tea leaves suggest that the fundamentals suggest that the price of oil should be much lower than it is. It almost appears "every Arab for himself" with Saudi Arabia taking the brunt of the cuts (wink, wink).

Oil pricing, from EIA:

EIA now forecasts Brent crude oil spot prices to average $51 per barrel (b) in 2017 and $52/b in 2018. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices are expected to be $2/b lower than Brent prices in 2017 and 2018. Daily and monthly average prices could vary significantly from this forecast because global economic developments and geopolitical events in the coming months have the potential to push oil prices higher or lower than the current Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) price forecast. --- EIA  

Sempra news: wins $115 million deal to build liquid fuel terminal. Details:

• Sempra's unit: IEnova
• 20-year contract
• awarded by Mexico's Veracruz Port Adminisration
• construction, maintenance, and operations
• capacity: will supply 1.4 million bbls of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel to central Mexico
• will begin 2H18
• 500 direct and 2,000 indirect workers will be needed

Texas hyperdive. Enterprise Products Partners, London co. plan new ethylene export terminal on Houston Ship Channel. Also at Zacks.

The proposed terminal would be built at Enterprise’s Morgan’s Point complex, where the company already has the world’s largest ethane marine export terminal.

The Houston company would manage the construction, operations and commercial activities of the new terminal, while Navigator Gas would utilize its fleet of 14 ethylene-capable vessels to deliver ethylene to customers.

The new terminal would connect to Enterprise’s ethylene salt dome storage and ethylene pipeline system, both of which currently are under construction.

The storage facility will have approximately 600 million pounds of capacity, and the pipeline system will connect to ethylene producers and consumers along the Gulf Coast. 

EEP. Spike in price of EEP coming? Or pump and dump?

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