The Economist finally did it!
"Oil fuelled the 20th century—its cars, its wars, its economy and its geopolitics. Now the world is in the midst of an energy shock that is speeding up the shift to a new order."
US oil demand is absolutely horrid.
For those of you that think oil prices will "spike" from here, the reality check is demand destruction is already here.
To those of you doubting the oil supercycle, please remember that there were ~260 million bbls of SPR released in 2022 to combat elevated oil prices. If it were not for this record SPR release, oil prices would have approached closer to $140/bbl, which would have resulted in
The global oil market is not ready for what's coming. The US has, in essence, subsidized the rest of the world via SPR release and elevated crude exports. That's all about to end as US crude storage gets tight.
This oil market is so nuts.
Spec near record low.
OPEC+ effective cut at least ~1.5 million b/d.
Demand not great, but not horrendous.
It is what it is I suppose.
Some of these twitter replies I get are just absolutely mind boggling.
I’ll clarify it one more time.
Bullish energy stocks.
Crude is rangebound.
Refining margins will go down.
Holy shit people. Read the fkn articles.
In all seriousness, I don't know how many people realize how significant this EIA PSM/914 report was (just published for November).
In our real-time US oil production tracking dataset, November 2023 was supposed to be at an all-time high. While headline figures did point to a
Honestly, I don't know what's more ridiculous at this point.
IEA has been steadily revising down oil demand growth for 2024 and 2025. But then total demand stays the same because it is revising higher 2023 oil demand.
At some point, you just have to believe IEA is full of shit.
Oil is not selling off because Goldman downgraded some price target. No.
It’s selling off because physical market remains weak.
Brent backwardation is almost gone.
Need inventories to draw, when it does, prices will rebound.
Good lord. Brent 1-2 almost recovered the entire drop.
Physical market will be your guide. People comparing today to 2008 know nothing about the oil market.
In 08, we were threatening contango by now.
My guess is a lot of funds shorted oil and energy stocks in anticipation of a recession while holding growth tech names.
The extra pain will come if oil is green just as this massive trade unwinds.
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Sometimes, you need to be empirical and accept the data and not be biased by your own biases.
And sometimes, you need to just really ask the common sense question like how the fuck is it possible?
EIA implied gasoline demand is below 2020? Below COVID?
This is vs
@GasBuddyGuy
Just 2 months ago, we saw peak bullishness. Fast forwarding to today, we are seeing peak bearishness in oil just as global oil inventories start to decline.
It is what it is.
Heads up.
Preliminary estimate shows a jump in US crude exports and a drop in imports.
Crude draw coming next week.
Finalized estimates out to subs on Friday.
Global onshore crude inventory data is so bullish that it's making people do a double take.
The same double take I did when I saw how much Saudi and Russia decreased crude exports this month.
We will know soon enough.
API
-7.4mb for crude
-0.3 gasoline
-0.4 distillate
API is supposed to be more bearish on crude than EIA.
EIA could report -8 to -10 million bbls.
You know what that means. WTI down 10% tomorrow 😂
Why do people in financial markets treat changing your mind like a sin?
Our job is to react, not to predict. If you think you are in the business of predicting, then all the emotional and cognitive biases will ruin you.
The current oil sell-off is creating a sense of false security for the bears, and pushing the oil bulls to the brink of exhaustion.
Similarly, this time last year, oil kept rallying despite disappointing demand and no production loss from Russia.
This time? Demand is better.
U.S. oil demand is starting to fire on all cylinders, U.S. shale oil production is peaking, speculator positioning is close to record bearish, and SPR release is ending.
The oil market is asymmetrically positioned going forward.
To put things in perspective, a lot of energy stocks have only returned back to pre-COVID.
The market is not valuing them at $65/bbl WTI let alone $75.
We redeployed all of our sideline cash today.
With refining margins moving higher and global oil inventories set to drop in the coming weeks, we liked what we saw in both energy stock performance and oil.
Speculator positioning reset complete. Let’s keep watching margins.
Heads up.
Next week's preliminary crude estimate shows a draw, but smaller than this week's. Crude exports will drop w-o-w, while imports remain elevated.
Finalized estimate out on Friday.
Investors selling off energy stocks like oil went back to $50.
There have been some really dark days in energy land. This is not even close to being bad.
Not even close.
Wow, I don't know if people realized but EIA's monthly oil production report showed headline figures of 13.248 million b/d but -373k b/d in adjustment.
Effective production is 12.875 million b/d.
I think we need to be honest about where we are headed in the oil market.
Demand weakness is real and showing up in the data now. Global oil inventories showed builds in the last few weeks.
Russia is not showing any signs of production loss.
Don't see how we can go higher.
Large crude selloff is not translating to physical market weakness.
Saudi OSP cut was expected by traders. Positioning and index rebalancing are key reasons for this sudden one day fall.