REFILE-COLUMN-U.S. refineries start to return from maintenance: Kemp | Reuters

-William

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Data from market intelligence firm Genscape showed stockpiles at the Cushing, Oklahoma delivery point for U.S. crude futures rose by more than 1.8 million barrels between Oct 30 and Nov. 5, traders who saw the data said.

Oil down on growing U.S. stockpile worries, weak Wall Street

Good Morning

I am trying to understand the impact daily CL WTI options have on each days CL price direction.

I am new to this forum and forums in general so hope I have posed my question in a appropriate manner and thank you in advance for any advice or information.

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More than 100m barrels of crude oil and heavy fuels are being held on ships at sea, as a year-long supply glut fills up available storage on land and contributes to port congestion in key hubs. From China to the Gulf of Mexico, the growing flotilla of stationary supertankers is evidence that the oil price crash may still have further to run, as the world’s energy infrastructure starts to creak under the weight of near-record inventory levels. Unlike the last oil price collapse during the financial crisis, however, only about half of the oil held on the water has been put there specifically by traders looking to cash in by storing the fuel until prices recover. Instead, sky-high supertanker rates have prevented them from putting more oil into so-called floating storage, shutting off one of the safety valves that could prevent oil prices from falling further. The amount of oil sitting at sea is already more than the equivalent of one day’s global oil consumption.

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“Onshore storage is not quite full but it is at historically high levels globally,” said David Wech, managing director of JBC Energy. “As we move closer to capacity that is creating more infrastructure hiccups and delays in the oil market, leading to more oil being backed out onto the water.”

https://www.ft.com/content/f763a6da-8859-11e5-9f8c-a8d619fa707c

Oil Tanker Backlog in U.S. Gulf Seen as New Symbol of Glut

nymexwti 

Good Morning I am trying to understand the impact daily CL WTI options have on each days CL price direction. I am new to this forum and forums in general so hope I have posed my question in a appropriate manner and thank you in advance for any advice or information.

I suspect it is very little. Mainly it is futures moving options.

John Kemp ‏@JKempEnergy 4h4 hours ago
WTI AND BRENT TIMESPREADS weaken amid fears about a build up of crude and product stocks:



-William

FT @FuturesTrader71 had an interesting Trader Bite comment yesterday on API build

Stage 5 - Trader Bite

At the end of today's TB he had some interesting commentary on /CL as well

-William

US oil production up for 4th week in a row. Big jump in Cushing inventory. But hardly any movement in CL futures.

I wonder how many forgot when report was coming out.

Shortly after the quick move it went down like it usually does when oil inventories comes out with a positive higher number.

edit : or better it returned on the down way