EIA Weekly Petroleum Report -- June 17, 2020

WTI: down 0.68%; down 26 cents; trading at $38.12.

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

Re-balancing:

Week	Date of Report=	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 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
Week 74	May 6, 2020	4.6	532.2
Week 75	May 13, 2020	-0.7	531.5
Week 76	May 20, 2020	-5.0	526.5
Week 77	May 28, 2020	7.9	534.4
Week 78	June 3, 2020	-2.1	532.3
Week 79	June 10, 2020	5.7	538.1
Week 80	June 17, 2020	1.2	539.3

Jet fuel delivered:

Jet Fuel Delivered, Change, Four-Week/Four-Week
Week	Date of Report	Change
Week 0	3/7/2020	-12.80%
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
Week (week-over-week)	Date of Report	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%