Post by
retiredengexec on Nov 13, 2018 10:28pm
Why Did this Drop Happen and How Bad is it vs 2014
I'll try to make this as brief as possible. The market absorbed the Non-OPec production growth in 2018 and everyone thought that we would be net short until mid-2019. The Sauds (probably at the behest of the US) and Russians saw an opportunity to make some easy dough. Trump threw everyone a curve and suddenly the market is over-supplied by a million a day. The oversupply IMHO is real becasue the market hs sussed that storage is filling again and hence the pressure on the marginal barrel. The marke also believes, wrongly i believe tht US shale will continue to grow at the same pace.
Its nowhere near as bad as 2014 becuase OECD storage continued to fill until JUne 2016 (before the OPec cuts but we saw lots of shale decline) to a maximum of 3,109 Billion barrels. Per the Opec market report, in October we were at 2,828 Billion barrels right on the five year average. In the October report they indicate that month over month 14.2 Million barels were added.
so the good news is that they have and will cut production to whittle away at this excess. Another piece of good news is that non-OPec will only grow by 1.7 Million bbl/pd.
I'm crossing my fingers and toes that the price drop dampens out soon.
Comment by
retiredengexec on Nov 13, 2018 10:37pm
Sorry about the grammatical errors. Non-Opec new production in 2018 is estiamted at 2.2 Millionbpd and will drop to only 1.7 Million BPD ( no Canadian for sure).
Comment by
retiredengexec on Nov 13, 2018 11:42pm
As usual excellent analysis Tumone1! To look at past performance (which is no guide to the future) and to make you all fel good, take a look at what VII did from late 2015 to mid 2016. May not happen, but oil prices were really crappy throughout this period.
Comment by
retiredengexec on Nov 13, 2018 11:42pm
As usual excellent analysis Tumone1! To look at past performance (which is no guide to the future) and to make you all fel good, take a look at what VII did from late 2015 to mid 2016. May not happen, but oil prices were really crappy throughout this period.