EIA on FOMC day: CL +1.1M, but huge draws in products Increasing gasoline and diesel demand is pulling more stock from inventories, even as refineries come back online from seasonal turnarounds. All this before driving season hits.
Crude shows a slight build, and adjustment factors are once again large.
Implied gasoline demand has risen as refiners pumped out and delivered more product.
This all seems to coincide with the Gasbuddy data showing increases in gasoline demand by about 4%.
From Twitter:
Crude +1.117K, Exp. -1.8MM Gasoline -6.399MM Distillates -3.313MM Cushing -1.063MM Production 12.3MMb/d, +100kb/d How is crude again the outlier? Because the "Adjustment Factor" exploded to 2.230MMb/d, just shy of another record high US implied oil demand (product supplied) rose by 913kbpd w/w to 20.026mbpd last week w/w changes in kbpd gasoline +366 jet fuel -36 distillate +238 residual fuel -154 propane/propylene +321 other oils +179 EIA EIA data, week ending 3/18 Crude oil: +1.1M Domestic prod: 12.3MMbpd SPR: NC Cushing: -1.1M Gasoline: -6.4M Impld mogas demand: 8.96Mbpd Distillates: -3.3M Refiner utilz: 88.6% Total exports: 11.94MMbpd US petroleum inventories (crude, SPR, refined products) fell by 10.435mb w/w to 1,619.566mb last week EIA EIA (wk ending 17 March) Crude: 1.117M Cushing: -1.063M Gasoline: -6.400M Distillates: -3.313M
Shrinking US Petroleum Inventories:
Global Petroleum Inventory Changes (mmbpd):