Corpus Christi Shines -- RBN Energy -- June 10, 2020

Inflation? Nope. US consumer prices fell for a third straight month in May...underlying inflation was weak -- another understatement ... demand subdued amid a recession -- say what? A recession? I thought the accepted definition of a recession was two consecutive quarters of negative GDP. I don't think that's going to happen. The "market" doesn't think so either. Link here. 

Oil: Chesapeake plans bankruptcy. Dog bits man. Least surprising story all year.


Oil: the president is not happy with Iran - Venezuela. More sanctions coming. 

Oil: oversupply is a thing of the past. LOL. Well, that didn't take long. Link here.

Oil:

• OPEC basket: with significant drop today, to $37.09, link here. 
• Saudi needs $110-oil; will survive on $80-oil;
• Urals sour: $40.90
• Brent: $40.39

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Back to the Bakken

 

Active rigs:

$38.10	6/10/2020	06/10/2019	06/10/2018	06/10/2017	06/10/2016
Active Rigs	12	64	61	52	28

No new wells coming off the confidential list today.

RBN Energy: new Permian pipes boost crude oil exports from Corpus Christi, part 7.

In the first eight months of last year, the Corpus Christi area ranked third among its Gulf Coast brethren in crude oil export volumes — Houston was consistently #1 then, and Beaumont was the regular runner-up. Since September 2019, though, Corpus has been out front, often by a wide margin, and there’s good reason to believe it will stay ahead of the pack, at least for a while. What’s driving the South Texas port’s export-volume growth? First, there are three big new pipelines now moving crude from the Permian to Corpus: Cactus II, EPIC Crude and Gray Oak. Second, Corpus Christi and nearby Ingleside, TX, have a lot of existing storage and marine-dock capacity, and more is being developed. Today, we continue our review of crude export facilities with a look at three terminals along Corpus’s Inner Harbor.

U.S. crude oil demand and production are off from their highs, but crude exports from Gulf Coast marine terminals have held steady through this spring — hence our continued interest in how much these facilities are loading and how much more they could handle. We’ve already posted six episodes in our review of U.S. crude export infrastructure and utilization. Part 1 looked at the Seaway Freeport and Seaway Texas City terminals, both of which are part of Enterprise Products Partners and Enbridge’s broader Seaway Crude Pipeline (SCP) system. In Part 2, we reviewed the Houston Fuel Oil Terminal (HFOT), which is now owned by Energy Transfer, and the Seabrook Logistics Marine Terminal, which is jointly owned by Magellan Midstream Partners and LBT Tank Terminals. Part 3 examined Enterprise Hydrocarbon Terminal, or EHT, which is one of the largest energy-related marine terminals on the Gulf Coast, and part 4 focused on the three crude export terminals in the Beaumont/Nederland, TX, area. In Part 5, we looked at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP), which is the only Gulf Coast terminal that can fully load 2-MMbbl Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs); LOOP is also a major crude import terminal. Then, last time, in part 6, the spotlight shifted to Corpus Christi, the port closest to the Permian and Eagle Ford shale plays. In that blog, we reviewed the three newest facilities there: Eagle Ford Terminals, the EPIC Midstream Terminal, and Pin Oak Corpus Christi.