Daily Oil Fundamentals

No Rest for the Wicked

06 Sep 2024

No Rest for the Wicked

OPEC+ not putting 180,000 bpd of crude oil back on the market for two additional months achieved nought, as discussed below. A seemingly constructive weekly statistics from the EIA – ditto. How would you interpret an unchanged settlement in WTI following a 6.9 million bbls decline in crude oil and an 8 million bbls withdrawal in commercial oil inventories? Surely, red flags were raised. Maybe, the focus was on dismal demand figures as refiners supplied 1 mbpd less oil than the week before with proxy gasoline demand falling under 9 mbpd – hence the disenchanting RBOB performance.

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Markets and Investors are Backfooted

05 Sep 2024

Markets and Investors are Backfooted

There is a pause of breath and light reprieve for oil prices this morning caused in the main by a greater draw of stock in the US API data than anticipated. Crude drew 7.4mb barrels against a -1mb expectation, Gasoline -0.3mb and Distillate -0.4mb with both products forecasted to have mild builds. If matched by the EIA Inventory Report later, the Crude draw will be the largest for 2-months, but as the two publications have not exactly chimed in agreement of late, the market will have to wait for such confirmation.

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Seemingly Grim Outlook on Supply as well as Demand

04 Sep 2024

Seemingly Grim Outlook on Supply as well as Demand

This is a market, which is reluctant to react to bullish news but happy to jump on the bandwagon when the status quo is re-established. There was no price support forthcoming last week when Libya was forced to shut production down and severely restrict exports, yet the agreement to appoint a central bank governor was greeted with a massive sell-off, which sent the price of Brent to its lowest level this year and RBOB close to the trough of 2021.