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UBS Sees Risk of Oil Super-Contango as Storage Fills BY GRANT
SMITH
The highest U.S. crude production and stockpiles in more than 30
years helped push
oil prices down for the most consecutive months on record.
With little sign of rapid production cut backs from the word's
largest producers, Commercial crude stocks in OECD countries are
set to rise further and could reach on-
land capacity limits at the end of 1H15, UBS wrote in an
e-mailed report.
Once storage tanks filled "more-expensive storage options such
as oil tankers would
be needed to store excess supplies. In such a case, the forward
curve would move into "supercontago," UBS said in the report,
published today.
Brent futures have slumped 13 percent in January, a seventh
monthly drop that caps
the longest slide since the contract began trading in 1988. U.S.
crude inventories and
production both rose last week to the highest level since the
Energy Information Administration began collecting weekly data in
the early 1980s.
Weve seen continued, massive stock builds, Torbjoern Kjus, an
analyst at DNB
ASA in Oslo, said. The market is still oversupplied and people
are very insecure on
whats going to happen. People have realized now that Saudi
Arabia and core OPEC are
not going to step in by cutting back their own production.
OIL WATCHKen Cohen @KenPCohen
Despite numerous reviews & clean
bills-of-health, there's still no
indication #KXL will be approvedif
at all. exxonmobil.co/1BA1OBTDetails
"As five studies and 17,000 pages of scientific review have led
the U.S. State Department to conclude, Keystone XL can be built and
operated with minimal environmental impact."
Russ Girling, CEO, Transcanada, after the
U.S. Senate voted to approve his company's
$8 billion pipeline project
QUOTE OF THE DAY
1:00 p.m.: Baker Hughes rig count
3:30 p.m.: CFTC Commitments of
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TODAY'S EVENTS
62-36 Result of the Keystone XL
Senate vote held on Jan. 29
NUMBER OF THE DAY
MARKET CALLS. U.S. crude
production is to peak at 9.6 million
barrels a day in 1H 2015: Macquarie
INSIGHT. Oil production in Nigeria
and Iraq is safe from insurgencies
TODAY'S NEWS. Chevron indicates
its Capex for 2015 will be $35 billion,
down from $40.3 billion in 2014
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INSIGHT - GEOPOLITICS BY CHRISTOPHER SELL, BLOOMBERG BRIEF
EDITOR
Oil Safe From Islamist Insurgencies in Nigeria and Iraq
Output in Iraq and Nigeria, totaling
around 5.6 million barrels a day, will
remain unaffected by violent extremist fighting that has so far
been confined well
outside oil production facilities. Militants
are unlikely to make inroads to major oil
centers where they have little support, according to Julian Lee,
Bloomberg Oil
Strategist.
Iraq, OPECs second-largest producer, is scaling up output to
record levels
despite skirmishes in northern Kirkuk
region.Islamic State Iraqi HQ at Mosul is 485-
miles from the heart of Iraqs oil
operations at Basra.The two countries face similar internal
armed conflict. Islamic State declared a
caliphate in northern Iraq and Syria, and Boko Haram has done
the same in
northern Nigeria.
Nigeria, Africas largest oil producer,
goes to the polls next month to elect a
new president. Boko Haram HQ at Gwoza is around 625 miles from
the center of
Nigerias oil production at Port Harcourt.
Like Iraq, Nigeria is ethnically and
religiously divided, said Lee. Iraq is predominantly Shia
Islamic in the south,
Sunni Islamic in the north and the west
and Kurdish in the north-east. Nigeria is mostly Christian in
the south and Muslim
in the north.
Iraq Is OPEC's Second Largest Producer
Source: Bloomberg
Nigeria is Africa's Largest Oil Producer
Source: Bloomberg
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INSIGHT - U.S. IMPORTS BY VINCENT G. PIAZZA & SYARIFA GALEB,
BLOOMBERG INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS
Saudi Arabia Cedes U.S. Oil Import Share as Neighbors GainU.S.
crude oil imports averaged 7.4
million barrels a day in the week ended Jan. 23, up 204,000 from
the prior week.
Mexican, Venezuelan and Columbian oil
blends temporarily gained share while Canadian imports dropped
to about 2.9
million barrels and Saudi Arabian flows
fell to 669,000 from more than 1 million.
Oil net imports are expected to average 6.4 million a day in
2015. The average fell
400,000 barrels to 7.4 million in 2014 as
U.S. output rose by 1 million.
Saudi Tonnes Are Being Replaced By Local Product
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REFINERY OUTAGES
South Koreas S-Oil plans 2015
maintenance at No. 2 and 3 crude-
distillation units, and No. 1 and 2 residue-hydro
desulferisation units. The refiners
crude units operated at an average of
92.8 percent in 4Q, up from 92.6 percent
in 3Q, according to an earnings statement on the company's
website.
Heesu Lee
Phillips 66's refinery in southern
California is running a hydrocracker at
reduced rates and slowing operations at a
fluid catalytic cracker, a person familiar with operations at
the plant said.
Lynn Doan and Jessica Summers
Chevron is to shut its Cape Town
refinery from Feb.13 to March 31 for
annual maintenance and safety
inspection, the company said in a statement.
Kevin Crowley
PDVSA said this year it will conduct
general maintenance on processing units,
flare headers, boilers, docks and storage
tanks at the Paraguana refining complex,
citing companys refining vice president
Jesus Luongo. The maintenance will require 4,300 workers.
Jose Orozco
The BP-Husky Toledo refinery is said
to have remained down through to at
least late Friday for repairs. The 135,000
barrel-a-day refinery was forced to shut the fluid catalytic
cracker after a valve
broke, according to a person familiar with
repairs. Lynn Doan
Current and Planned Refinery Outages
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TODAY'S OIL NEWS
Libyas oil refineries are processing around 150,000 barrels a
day, Mashallah Zwai, oil
minister for Libyas Islamist-backed govervment, said in an
interview late Thursday in
Tripoli. The Zawiya facility is processing 110,000 barrels a day
while Tobruk is handling 20,000 and Brega and Sarir are both at
9,000. Libyas largest refinery at Ras Lanuf is
closed. Es Sider oil port has 2.5 million barrels in storage
tanks, and Ras Lanuf has 2
million barrels, he added.
Saleh Sarrar
Chevron indicates its Capex for 2015 will be $35 billion, down
from $40.3 billion in
2014.
Brad Skillman
Arbitrage flow from the Atlantic Basin to U.S., which picked up
momentum two weeks ago, has slowed amid the widening Brent-WTI
spread, according to a survey of five
traders and analysis of tanker fixtures. The Brent-WTI spread
blowing out to more than
$4 is making it difficult for the transAtlantic arb to work,
said Bloomberg oil strategist Julian Lee.
Sherry Su
OPEC shipments, excluding cargoes from Ecuador and Angola, are
to increase
350,000 barrels a day to 24.4 million barrels in the four weeks
to Feb. 14, Oil
Movements said in a report. The levels were boosted by the final
stage of winter
demand, Oil Movements founder Roy Mason said.
Grant Smith
Iraq is to boost Kirkuk February crude exports to 271,429
barrels a day, according to a preliminary loading program obtained
by Bloomberg News. January exports stood at
2511,613 barrel.
Sherry Su
Statoil, Norways biggest oil company, isnt planning any wells in
the Barents Sea this
year, another sign explorers are turning away from the Arctic
region after a plunge in
crude prices. No exploration drilling is planned so far in the
Barents Sea in 2015 from our side, Morten Eek, a spokesman for the
Stavanger-based company, said in an
e-mail. Statoil will spend this year looking at data assembled
during a record 12-well
campaign in the Barents Sea in 2013 and 2014, he said.
Mikael Holter
The plunge in crude prices to below $50 a barrel has curbed oil
and gas explorers plans for drilling in Namibia next year, the
countrys petroleum commissioner said. We
have at least three majors which have indicated to us that they
will be drilling in 2016,
Immanuel Mulunga said by phone on Thursday from the capital,
Windhoek. I am more
confident of three instead of five or six announced last year,
he said. While Namibia was
interesting to explorers way before oil rose to $100 a barrel,
the current trend is worrying, Mulunga said.
Felix Njini
Russia's January oil output is unaffected by sanctions, or oil
prices. Crude condensate
production is set to reach 45.12 million metric tonnes, or 10.67
million barrels a day this month, according to CDU TEK, for the
first 29 days. This compares with 10.66 million
barrels a day in December.
Julian Lee
OPEC output fell to 30.175 million barrels a day in January from
30.32 million in
December, according to JBC Energy. Libya was the main cause of
lower OPEC output,
declining 100,000 barrels a day to 300,000 barrel, it said.
Grant Smith
The Republican-controlled U.S.
Senate passed a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline,
setting up a
conflict with President Barack Obama
who has promised a veto.
The Senate voted 62-36 Thursday for the measure that would
circumvent
the administration review in progress
for six years. Nine Democrats joined Republicans who backed
the
measure. Obama has said he wants
to wait until the review is completed before deciding on whether
to
approve construction of the pipeline.
Differences with a version passed 266-153 by the House on Jan. 9
must
be resolved before the legislation is
sent to Obama, but supporters pledged to work through those
quickly
and send a final version to the
president.
This is about energy, jobs, economic activity, national
security
and building the right kind of
infrastructure we need, Senator
Hoeven, a North Dakota Republican
and bill sponsor, said after the vote.
The bill was the first taken up by the new, Republican-led
Senate.
Lawmakers who back Keystone have
sought for years to force Obamas hand only to be turned away in
the
Senate when Democrats were in
control. The Thursday vote was less than two-thirds majority
needed to
override a presidential veto.
Backers say the project would create jobs and increase U.S.
energy
security by tightening ties with
Canada, where the proposed
TransCanada Corp. pipeline would originate.
TransCanada is encouraged by
the strong bipartisan support for
Keystone XL by U.S. lawmakers, Russ Girling, the chief executive
of
the Calgary-based pipeline company, said in a statement.
White House press secretary Josh
Earnest Thursday reiterated that Obama would veto the
Keystone
legislation. Jim Snyder and Kathleen Hunter
Senate Republicans Pass
Keystone Bill
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OIL SPEAK
MARKET CALLS
U.S. crude production is to peak at 9.6 million barrels a day in
1H 2015, then stabilize
for rest of year, falling short of the previous forecast of 10.1
million barrels a day, Vikas
Dwivedi, global oil and gas strategist with Macquarie Group,
said at the Argus
Americas Crude Summit 2015 conference in Houston. No growth is
likely in November
and December.
Sheela Tobben
WAF to Asia crude arbitrage window is to widen on better
economics. February loading WAF exports to Asia fell to a
four-month low of 1.73 million barrels a day but
should increase to more than 1.8 million barrels in the next two
months, as arbitrage
economics have improved by around $2.37 a barrel.
Bernard Leung, Bloomber oil strategist
WHAT TO READ
Iraq failed to capitalize on a period of
relative stability and growing oil reserves, according to a new
report by the World
Bank. Between 2007-2012, Iraq experienced rapid economic
growth
fueled by an expansion of oil reserves
and the restoration of relative peace in
many parts of the country. In The
Unfulfilled Promise of Oil and Growth
World Bank argues that fundamental
developmental challenges remained
largely unaddressed during this period. Instead oil revenues
were redistributed
through public sector employment and
earnings.
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
West Texas Intermediate Crude Seen Falling in Analyst Survey
WTI crude futures may fall next week, according to a Bloomberg
survey.Twenty-three of 42 analysts, or 55 percent, forecast WTI
will decline
through Feb. 6; eight respondents, or 19 percent, predict a
gain; 11 see prices little changed. WTI -$1.06, or 2.3 percent, to
$44.53 a barrel in
the first four days this week on Nymex.
Mark Shenk
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ENERGY WATCH GUEST COMMENTARY BY RINEESH BANSAL AND STUART KIRK,
DEUTSCHE BANK
Forget Oil Supply and Demand Fundamentals, It's all About the
WeatherWhat explains last years 45 percent
rout in the oil price the second worst annual decline in 30
years? Global output
growth around 3.5 percent should have
added around 1.5 million barrels per day to demand which is
in-line with last years
production increase. A rising dollar had
an impact but oil priced in other
currencies also fell. Nor are the themes of U.S. shale, weaker
Chinese growth or
Middle-East politics particularly new.
Going beyond the usual reasons a more radical hypothesis is
presented here: the
weather is to blame.
Last year was the hottest ever recorded. Moreover China and the
U.S.,
accounting for half the planets carbon
dioxide emissions, agreed to a climate deal in November raising
hopes for a
global agreement at the United Nations
conference in Paris this year. And a deal with stringent
emission limits will mean
the entirety of the worlds known fossil
fuel reserves cannot be extracted and
burned. Such a conclusion changes the nature of oil from being a
scarce
commodity that increases in value with
time, to a perishable good governed by use it or lose it
dynamics. Peak carbon
rather than peak oil becomes the primary
driver of oil prices. The 2010 UN Climate Conference
agreed to restrict global warming to 2
degrees Celsius relative to the pre-industrial period. The
Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change estimates that
to achieve this with two-thirds probability, CO2 emissions need
to be restricted
below 1,000 gigatonnes. The current
emission rate of 55 gigatonne per annum
exhausts this limit in two decades well before the world runs
out of fossil fuels.
Any number of unforeseen factors may
prevent this scenario from unfolding but
investors should at least consider the
implications of peak carbon. One is clear: oil demand has to
come
down over time. By International Energy
Agency estimates oil consumption needs
to decline 0.5 percent a year, compared
with a 1.5 percent annual increase of the
last two decades. The recent U.S.-China climate deal also
requires a similar
reduction in their oil demand. A lot of the
billion new cars coming on road by 2035
will have to be electric!
While oil has seen
volatility in the past, its
defining characteristic
of being a supply-
constrained scarce
commodity has
remained unchanged.
Secondly, consider fossil-fuel reserves.
The world is sitting on over 50 years of
reserves for both oil and gas and over a centurys production of
coal. Oil reserves
have doubled in the last 30 years as the
industry replenishes them faster than production. Burning all
these reserves
would release CO2 emissions amounting
to 2.5-times the available budget of 1,000 Gt. To meet climate
change targets over
half the proven fossil-fuel reserves have
to stay where they are underground.Under this use it or lose it
dynamic,
OPECs refusal to cut production seems
perfectly rational. With much less flexibility to shift revenue
over time,
maximizing production before the peak-
carbon deadline is what matters. Expect OPEC taps to stay fully
turned on as
members rush to monetize their reserves
worth over a centurys production. The
bonanza of lower oil prices for the West comes at the expense of
renewed over-
reliance on Middle East oil.
What about oil companies? The industry spent $650 billion on
exploration
and development last year two-thirds
of total upstream spending. That number has increased six fold
since 2000 after
adjusting for inflation and is producing
diminishing marginal returns. The finding and development costs
for the big-seven
oil majors trebled over a decade to $30 a
barrel of oil equivalent. In comparison, their operating
production cost (excluding
taxes and royalties) is just $10 a barrel. If
climate change puts an end to exploring,
marginal costs are closer to the latter number, with obvious
implications for oil
prices. And oil left in the ground means a
big chunk of the industrys current net asset value goes with
it.
From 2011 to 2013 five percent of
global output was spent on oil, up from just one percent in the
late 1990s. While
oil has seen volatility in the past, its
defining characteristic of being a supply-constrained scarce
commodity has
remained unchanged. If the world takes
climate change seriously, oil becomes constrained by the demand
allowed under
CO2 limits with implications for countries,
companies and consumers alike. Perhaps
last years fall was the first rumbling of this upcoming profound
change.
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SPOT PRICES
Spreads Benchmarks
Prices as of end of day Jan. 29
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Futures Based Swaps
PERIOD WTI BRNT WTI BRNT NYULSD NYULSDWTI NYULSD BRNT NYRB NYRB
WTI NYRBBR NYRB ULSD
Bal Mo 44.96 49.38 -4.42 162.12 23.13 18.71 135.97 12.15
7.73
FEB 15 45.16 49.94 -4.78 160.66 22.32 17.54 139.32 13.35
8.58
MAR 15 46.07 50.88 -4.81 158.88 20.66 15.85 160.77 21.46
16.65
APR 15 47.18 51.96 -4.77 159.16 19.67 14.89 162.37 21.01
16.24
Bal Qt 45.40 50.07 -4.67 160.55 22.04 17.37 145.35 15.65
10.98
Q2 15 48.28 52.98 -4.70 160.63 19.18 14.49 162.32 19.89
15.20
Q3 15 51.37 55.72 -4.35 166.85 18.71 14.36 155.63 13.99 9.65
Q4 15 53.75 57.98 -4.23 172.78 18.82 14.59 145.38 7.31 3.08
Bal Yr 49.70 54.19 -4.49 165.20 19.69 15.20 152.17 14.21
9.73
Cal 16 57.77 62.42 -4.65 181.07 18.28 13.63 163.95 11.09
6.44
Cal 17 62.25 67.03 -4.77 192.08 18.42 13.65 165.48 7.25 2.47
Updated 7:30 a.m. New York Time
FUTURES
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NBP Prompt (GB Pence/Therm)
KEY PRICES TICKER LAST PRICE CHG FROM OPEN LAST TRADE TIME TRADE
SOURCE FAIR VALUE
Day Ahead NBPGDAHD Index 47.70 -0.80 13:16:28 ICAS
Feb 15 NBPG1MON Index 46.95 -0.55 13:14:51 EGFI
Sum 15 NBPGS1 Index 42.70 -0.30 09:44:46 SPEC
TTF Dutch Gas (EUR/MWH)
KEY PRICES TICKER LAST PRICE CHG FROM OPEN LAST TRADE TIME TRADE
SOURCE FAIR VALUE
Day Ahead TTFGDAHD Index 20.57 -0.43 13:18:26 SPEC
Feb 15 TTFG1MON Index 20.43 -0.32 13:18:44 TNRG
2016 TTFGCY1 Index 20.35 -0.20 13:15:37 SPEC
Supply and Demand
INDICATOR TICKER VALUE 1-DAY CHG
GIE Total EU Gas Storage (MCM) GIEDSTTL Index 50,681.68
-291.31
GIE Total EU Gas Storage (% Full) GIEDFTTL Index 64.55 -0.37
Yesterday UK gas demand (MCM) UGASDEMD Index 289.36 0.00
Dayahead UK forecast gas demand (MCM) UGASFD1D Index 304.70
-16.91
Henry Hub ($/MMBTU)
KEY PRICES TICKER LAST PRICE CHG FROM OPEN LAST TRADE
Spot price NGUSHHUB Index 2.88
MAR 15 NG1 Comdty 2.67 -0.05 13:09:17
APR 15 NG2 Comdty 2.67 -0.04 13:08:39
MAY 15 NG3 Comdty 2.70 -0.05 13:08:16
Supply and Demand
INDICATOR TICKER MMCF/D CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS DAY
Change in total gas storage NAGSTSTO Index -16,801.00
-462.00
Total gas demand NAGSTOTC Index 97,429.00 -1,060.00
INDICATOR TICKER LAST CHANGE
Mont Belvieu LST Propane LPGSMBPP Index 47.13 0.00
Mont Belvieu Non-LST Ethane LPGSMBPE Index 18.50 0.00
Naphtha fob Singapore NAPHSINF Index 48.17 1.39
Source: Bloomberg
GAS PRICES: EUROPE
GAS PRICES: U.S.
GLOBAL LPG PRICING DATA
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