EIA Weekly Petroleum Report -- April 29, 2020

Weekly EIA petroleum report: link here --

• weekly change, US crude oil in storage: up another whopping 9.0 million bbls
• total US crude oil in storage: 526.7 million bbls, or about 10% above an already "fat" five-year average for this time of the year;
• refineries operating at 69.6% capability -- about where it has been for the past few weeks;
• gasoline, over four-week period: down by 43.7% year/year;
• distillate, over four-week period: down by 15.1% year/year;

WTI; following the release of that data:

• surged, 28%, up 3.47, to $15.81
• OPEC basket: at the same link shows price from yesterday, not the current price provided by OPEC, $13.30
• WTI, back to a premium over OPEC basket
  

Re-balancing (or should we now start calling it a "glut"?):

Week	Week Ending	Change	Million Bbls Storage
Week 0	November 21, 2018	4.9	446.9
Week 1	November 28, 2018	3.6	450.5
Week 2	December 6, 2018	-7.3	443.2
Week 3	December 12, 2018	-1.2	442.0
Week 4	December 19, 2018	-0.5	441.5
Week 5	December 28, 2018	0.0	441.4
Week 6	January 4, 2019	0.0	441.4
Week 7	January 9, 2019	-1.7	439.7
Week 8	January 16, 2019	-2.7	437.1
Week 9	January 24, 2019	8.0	445.0
Week 68	March 18, 2020	2.0	453.7
Week 69	March 25, 2020	1.6	455.4
Week 70	April 1, 2020	13.8	469.2
Week 71	April 8, 2020	15.2	484.4
Week 72	April 15, 2020	19.2	503.6
Week 72	April 22, 2020	15.0	518.6
Week 73	April 29, 2020	9.0	527.6

Jet fuel delivered:

Jet Fuel Delivered, Change, Four-Week/Four-Week
Week	Week Ending	Change
Week 0	March 11, 2020	-12.80%
Week 1	March 18, 2020	-12.60%
Week 2	March 25, 2020	-8.90%
Week 3	April 1, 2020	-16.40%
Week 4	April 8, 2020	-0.22%
Week 5	April 15, 2020	-39.70%
Week 6	April 22, 2020	-53.60%
Week 7	April 29, 2020	-61.60%

Imports:

Crude Oil Imports
Week (week-over-week)	Week Ending	Raw Data, millions of bbls	Change (millions of bbls)	Four-week period comparison
Week 0	March 11, 2029	6.4	0.174
Week 1	March 18, 2020	6.5	0.127
Week 2	March 25, 2020	6.1	-0.422
Week 3	April 1, 2020	6.0	-0.070
Week 4	April 8, 2020	5.9	-0.173
Week 5	April 15, 2020	5.7	-0.194
Week 6	April 22, 2020	5.6	-0.700
Week 7	April 29, 2020	5.3	0.365	-19.700%