RE:RE:Oil shares on the rise as freeze cuts U.S. output by 2M bbl/On BNN this morning it was mentioned that 2M+ drop in production was just the permian. Other areas are facing similar albeit less catastrophic shutdowns.
Last week's Oil draw was 7M barrels vs 100k estimate. Not sure who's doing the estimates but geeze that wasn't even close. This week who knows.
Overall, US storage was at ~540 Million barrels in August, which was well above average. Since August inventories have steadily declined. Now inventories stand at ~450 Million barrel which is almost exactly average historically.
Storage is almost certain to decline this week and next which will undoubtably lead to US inventories being below historical average. If the trend of declines continue the US will almost certainly need to ramp up oil imports to compensate.
BLUE IS PRODUCTION
BROWN IS CONSUMPTION