Market Close: June 09 Down, Diesel DN $.0288, Gas DN $.0195
Jun 9th, 2023 by loren
Fueling Strategy: Please partial fill only today/tonight, Prices will drop 1.5 cents Saturday the another 3 cents Sunday ~ Be Safe
NMEX Crude $ 70.17 DN $1.1200
NYMEX ULSD $2.3610 DN $0.0288
NYMEX Gas $2.5932 DN $0.0195
NEWS
July WTI crude oil on Friday closed down -1.12 (-1.57%), and July RBOB gasoline closed down -1.95 (-0.75%). Crude oil and gasoline prices Friday posted moderate losses. A stronger dollar Friday undercut energy prices. Also, concern about weakness in China’s energy demand is bearish for crude prices. A bullish factor for crude was Friday’s rally in the S&P 500 to a 9-3/4 month high, which shows confidence in the economic outlook and energy demand.
A bearish factor for crude is the weakness in Chinese energy demand, which has resulted in higher Chinese crude oil stockpiles. According to analytics firm Kpler, China’s crude oil stockpiles rose to a 2-year high in May of 966 million bbl, well above the five-year average of 858 million bbl.
Crude prices jumped Monday after OPEC+ Sunday agreed to maintain its crude production levels. However, Saudi Arabia said it will voluntarily cut its crude output by 1 million bpd starting in July, and Saudi Energy Minister Price Abdulaziz bin Salman said he “will do whatever is necessary to bring stability to the oil market.” He also said that next month’s additional cuts could be extended, but they will keep the market “in suspense” about whether this will happen. OPEC May crude production fell -500,00 bpd to a 16-month low of 28.26 million bpd. Goldman Sachs said the latest OPEC production cuts would prompt a draw in global oil inventories that will spark a rally in crude prices into the low $90s per barrel later this year.
Crude oil prices are being undercut by signs that Russia has not delivered on its threat to cut crude output. Tanker-tracking data from Bloomberg shows Russia’s crude exports in the four weeks to June 4 rose to 3.73 million bpd from a revised 3.68 million bpd in the four-week period to May 28. Crude shipments from Russian ports are +1.4 million bpd higher than at the end of 2022, with most of the crude going to India and China. Russia has halted the publication of crude and condensate production data in an attempt to disguise if it has actually cut crude output.
In a bearish factor, Vortexa reported Monday that the amount of crude stored on tankers that have been stationary for at least a week rose +1.8% w/w to 101.46 million bbl in the week ended June 2.
Wednesday’s EIA report showed that (1) U.S. crude oil inventories as of June 2 were -2.2% below the seasonal 5-year average, (2) gasoline inventories were -7.5% below the seasonal 5-year average, and (3) distillate inventories were -15.6% below the 5-year seasonal average. U.S. crude oil production in the week ended June 2 rose +1.6% w/w to a 3-year high of 12.4 million bpd, only 0.7 million bpd (-5.3%) below the Feb-2020 record-high of 13.1 million bpd.
Baker Hughes reported Friday that active U.S. oil rigs in the week ended June 9 rose by +1 to 556 rigs. That is well below the 2-1/2 year high of 627 rigs posted on December 2 and just above the prior week’s 13-month low of 555 rigs. U.S. active oil rigs have more than tripled from the 17-year low of 172 rigs seen in Aug 2020, signaling an increase in U.S. crude oil production capacity.
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