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Energy - Stronger US oil supply growth
The oil market managed to move higher yesterday following the aggressive sell-off on Monday. ICE Brent rallied by a little more than 1.9%, while the prompt Brent time spread also managed to see its backwardation widen. However, for now, the flat price remains firmly below US$80/bbl, and with the balance expected to be fairly comfortable over the 1H24, significant upside is likely limited.
The API reported overnight that US crude oil inventories fell by 5.2m barrels, which is larger than the market was expecting. However, large builds were once again seen on the products side, with gasoline and distillate stocks increasing by 4.9m barrels and 6.9m barrels respectively. If the EIA’s weekly report confirms a build in distillates, it will be the seventh consecutive week of stocks increasing, which will further help ease tightness concerns in the middle distillate market.
The EIA yesterday released its Short-Term Energy Outlook, in which includes its latest US crude oil production forecasts. The EIA revised higher its US output growth for 2024 from 190k b/d last month to 290k b/d. This would see US crude oil output averaging 13.21m b/d this year. Meanwhile, in its first forecasts for 2025, the EIA expects US production to grow by around 230k b/d to 13.44m b/d.
While European natural gas continues to come under pressure amid comfortable storage, US natural gas prices rallied significantly yesterday with the front-month Henry Hub contract rallying by more than 7% on the day to settle back above US$3/MMBtu. Since the start of the year, Henry Hub has rallied by almost 27%. The more recent rally has been on the back of forecasts for cold weather through until the end of January. For now, though, storage in the US is comfortable with 13% above the 5-year average at the end of December.
There is little on the energy calendar today with just the usual weekly US inventory report from the EIA, which is expected to show a similar trend to the API numbers- a draw in crude inventories and builds in refined products.
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