A reader who knows "this stuff" a whole better than I do, and who follows it a lot more closely noted this after this week's OPEC numbers came out:
First take on the OPEC report out today; global oil production exceeded supply by 8.7 million bpd in May, even after OPEC cuts of 6.3 mbpd. caveat: their 2nd quarter demand figures were unrevised from a month ago, and a lot has happened in the past month.We will see this in context early next week when Focus on Fracking weekly update is posted late Sunday night.
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Meanwhile, The USA / EIA Numbers
Link here:
- US crude oil in storage: 539.3 million bbls; a whopping 15% above an already-fat level of storage;
- US crude oil increased by a relatively small 1.2 million bbls from the previous week;
- refineries operating at 73.8% capacity; pretty much unchanged;
- jet fuel supplied was down 62.3% compared with same four-week period last year; again, pretty much unchanged
- US crude oil imports, at 6.6 million bpd, right at the four-week average of 6.7 million bpd
Week
|
Date of Report=
|
Change
|
Million Bbls Storage
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Week 0
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November 21, 2018
|
4.9
|
446.9
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Week 1
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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 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
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April 29, 2020
|
9.0
|
527.6
|
Week 74
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May 6, 2020
|
4.6
|
532.2
|
Week 75
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May 13, 2020
|
-0.7
|
531.5
|
Week 76
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May 20, 2020
|
-5.0
|
526.5
|
Week 77
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May 28, 2020
|
7.9
|
534.4
|
Week 78
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June 3, 2020
|
-2.1
|
532.3
|
Week 79
|
June 10, 2020
|
5.7
|
538.1
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Week 80
|
June 17, 2020
|
1.2
|
539.3
|
Jet fuel delivered:
Jet Fuel Delivered, Change, Four-Week/Four-Week
|
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Week
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Date of Report
|
Change
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Week 0
|
3/7/2020
|
-12.80%
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Week 1
|
3/14/2020
|
-12.60%
|
Week 2
|
3/21/2020
|
-8.90%
|
Week 3
|
3/28/2020
|
-16.40%
|
Week 4
|
4/4/2020
|
-0.22%
|
Week 5
|
4/11/2020
|
-39.70%
|
Week 6
|
4/18/2020
|
-53.60%
|
Week 7
|
4/24/2020
|
-61.60%
|
Week 8
|
5/1/2020
|
-66.60%
|
Week 9
|
5/8/2020
|
-68.50%
|
Week 10
|
5/15/2020
|
-67.90%
|
Week 11
|
May 22, 2020
|
-66.60%
|
Week 12
|
June 3, 2020
|
-68.70%
|
Week 13
|
June 10, 2020
|
-63.70%
|
Week 14
|
June 17, 2020
|
-62.30%
|
US crude oil imports:
Crude Oil Imports
|
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Week (week-over-week)
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Date of Report
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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%
|
Week 8
|
May 6, 2020
|
5.7
|
0.410
|
|
Week 9
|
May 13, 2020
|
5.4
|
-0.321
|
-26.100%
|
Week 10
|
May 20, 2020
|
5.2
|
-0.194
|
|
Week 11
|
May 28, 2020
|
7.2
|
2.000
|
-16.400%
|
Week 12
|
June 3, 2020
|
6.2
|
-1.000
|
-18.300%
|
Week 13
|
June 10, 2020
|
6.4
|
0.000
|
-13.300%
|
Week 14
|
June 17, 2020
|
6.6
|
-0.222
|
-10.000%
|
As expected. A lot of the contango oil being delivered to the gulf coast. Domestic production down by 2 million barrels a day in the past 10 weeks, pretty much a linear drop week to week, reflecting the combination of shale well depletion and rig count drop of nearly 80%. Good information source is this link.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.eia.gov/petroleum/weekly/crude.php#menu
Thank you. I had forgotten to post this week's "gasoline demand" chart. It's now been posted:
Deletehttps://themilliondollarway.blogspot.com/2020/06/just-like-that-ndic-quit-reporting-june.html.