EIA Reports Huge Year End Gasoline and Distillate Storage Builds

EIA reported a small build in crude oil with huge builds in gasoline and distillates. Cushing inventories showed a build.  Production at 11.7 mbpd ATH. Crude oil futures volatilty continued with market uncertainty with OPEC & Trade War concerns.

EIA reported a small build in crude oil with big builds in gasoline and distillates. Cushing inventories showed a build.  Production at 11.7 mbpd ATH. Crude oil futures volatilty continued with market uncertainty with OPEC & Trade War concerns

Cushing Storage Tanks

Crude Oil Tanks at Cushing OK, Basis For the WTI Futures Contract.

DOE Weekly Petroleum Status Report: 12/27/18

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  • Release Time: Friday 4 January 2018 – 11:00 ET 
EIAExpectedPrior EIAAPI
Crude+007k -3100k-46k -4457k
 Cushing+641k +440k+799k+483k
Gasoline

+6890k

+2000k+3003k+7995k
Distillate+9529k

+1600k

+002k+3955k

Note in bbls *exp = Reuters poll est except Cushing  

  • Refinery Utilization +2.1% 97.2% Exp +0.3%
  • Production UNCH 11.70k bd ATH (+20% y/y)

 Summary of Weekly Petroleum Data for the Week (Live Link) 

US Crude Oil Prices and Recessions

 

Via John Kemp @JKempEnergy 

 

 

WTI Crude Oil Futures Weekly Chart Outlook via @KnovaWave

MW WTI D 12 28 18

MW WTI W 12 28 18

DigStic Range Data @DigStic – Where are the key option, break points?

WTI Crude Oil Futures Committment of Traders

 

 

Read Understanding Commitments of Traders Reports – COT, TFF and DCOT  to help understand the disaggregated reports (DCOT) and how they break down the reportable open interest positions into four classifications: 1. Producer/Merchant/Processor/User 2. Swap Dealers 3. Managed Money 4. Other Reportables 

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DigStic Data @DigStic

 

RonH Data ‏@Ronh999

US Oil Exports off  2018 (ATH) high.

US Oil Imports Week Over Week 

US Oil Input Into Refineries Per Day 

US consumers spent $820.7 billion per day for gasoline last week. That is -$94.8 million more dollars per day than same week last year.  

US gasoline avg retail price was $2.266 per gallon, -25.4 cents less per gallon YoY.  

US consumers bought 362.17 million gallons of gasoline per day last week.

US Oil Field Production ATH of 11.7 mbpd

US Oil Refinery Utilization 

 Cushing Oil Stocks

NB: Check out Ron’s great work at Ron H Public Tableau Link

 ** Note with the unreliability of the API numbers highlighted by its constant debacles we offer you the bare bones of that report.

Key EIA and CME Dates For WTI Crude Oil

CME Crude Oil Futures Calendar

CME Crude Oil Options Calendar

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