Following API's smaller than expected draw overnight, DOE data showed an unexpedted 1.31m barrel build (3.5m draw expectations). This was offset by considerably bigger than expected draws in Gasoline and Distillates and Cushing oinventories rose less than expected. Crude production also fell once again, to its lowest since Sept 2014. The initial kneejerk was a mini-flash-crash in crude prices.. but that was rapidly bid back to unch...
API:
- Crude -1.1m (-3.5mm exp, last week -3.4mm)
- Cushing +508k (+1.1m exp)
- Gasoline -1.9mm (-1m exp)
- Distillates -2m (-1m exp)
DOE
- Crude +1.31m (-3.5mm exp, last week -3.4mm)
- Cushing +460k (+1.1m exp)
- Gasoline -2.5mm (-1m exp)
- Distillates -3.17m (-1m exp)
Some other statistics:
- Total production: 8.8mm
- Crude imports: 7.8mm
- Total crude supply: 16.1mm
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Production dropped for the 17th week in a row to its lowest since Sept 2014...
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Total stocks rose 1.3MM to 541MM, up 59 million Y/Y.
Some other interesting obserations: despite the Canadian wildfires, it appears that the DOE goalseeked total imports at 7.8mm barrels, virtually unchanged from last week, suggesting there has been no disruption.
Also notable is that refinery throughput rose by 190,000 b/d to a new record high of 16.371, up 1% from a year ago this time.
Finally, the reaction was an immediate flash crash in crude...but BTFD'ers could not resist...
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But back down we went...
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