Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Weekly EIA Petroleum Report -- Gasoline Imports At A 53-Week High -- August 12, 2020

Updates, see comments:

About the only thing I found surprising was that gasoline imports were at a 53-week high, like we don't already have enough gasoline sloshing around.

Oh, and that reported 300,000 bpd decrease in production; i think it should have been an increase...hope they aren't overreacting to the mistake they made in May...

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Original Post

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  • US crude oil in storage: 514.1 million bbls, about 15% above the already fat five-year average;
  • US crude oil in storage decreased by a moderate 4.5 million bbls;
  • refiners are operating at 81.0% capacity, pretty much unchanged, but up slightly from last report:
  • US imported 5.6 million bopd, down by 389,000 bopd from previous week;
  • over the past four weeks, crude oil imports averaged about 5.7 million bpd, 20.4% less than the same four-week period last year;
  • total products supplied averaged 18.5 million bpd, down by 14.3% from same period last year
  • distillate fuel product supplied averaged 3.6 million bpd over the past four weeks; down by 9.3% from the same period last year
  • distillate fuel inventories decreased by 2.3 million bbls, but still an astounding 24% above the already fat five-year average for this time of the year;
  • jet fuel supplied was down 45.8% compared with same four-week period last year; about the same as previous report;
Crude oil 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 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

Week 81

June 24, 2020

1.4

540.7

Week 82

July 1, 2020

-7.2

533.5

Week 83

July 8, 2020

5.7

539.2

Week 84

July 15, 2020

-7.5

531.7

Week 85

July 22, 2020

4.9

536.6

Week 86

July 29, 2020

-10.6

526.0

Week 87

August 5, 2020

-7.4

518.6

Week 88

August 12, 2020

-4.5

514.1

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%

Week 15

June 24, 2020

6.5

-0.102

-11.600%

Week 16

July 1, 2020

6.5

-0.600

-11.300%

Week 17

July 8, 2020

7.4

1.400

-8.500%

Week 18

July 15, 2020

7.5

-1.800

-10.200%

Week 19

July 22, 2020

5.9

0.373

-13.500%

Week 20

July 29, 2020

5.1

-0.800

-13.600%

Week 21

August 5, 2020

6.0

0.900

-18.100%

Week 22

August 12, 2020

5.6

-0.389

-20.400%

Jet fuel:

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%

Week 15

June 24, 2020

-62.50%

Week 16

July 1, 2020

-60.00%

Week 17

July 8, 2020

-57.20%

Week 18

July 15, 2020

-51.90%

Week 19

July 22, 2020

-47.70%

Week 20

July 29, 2020

-42.10%

Week 21

August 5, 2020

-40.90%

Week 22

August 12, 2020

-45.80%