Jim Ritterbusch
Jim Ritterbusch
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Crude supply is no longer an issue. We have plenty of it. However, that crude number is being countered to some extent by the large decline in gasoline stocks.
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Crude stocks should show a sizable increase as an expected further recovery in imports toward 10 million barrels a day more than negates the impact of additional refinery restarts.
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We did see a larger draw than expected, but that draw was mitigated by a significant increase in refinery runs.
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This tightness of supply in the Gulf Coast is going to spread,
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This thing has tentacles that are going to stretch all over the place,
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Given the magnitude of the damage and flooding considerations, they are coming back pretty fast...especially within the framework of a lot of employees that have been misplaced.
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But they do provide evidence that the oil infrastructure can bounce back pretty quickly after a really bad storm. These gasoline numbers give a cushion.
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This report is completely overshadowed by the storm. We did see a draw in gasoline stocks, and even though it's slight it isn't what this market needed,
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The real strength is from institutional funds flowing into the market.
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The numbers didn't do much to slow the rally down,
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That's pretty close to a capacity pace in imports. It looks like the Saudis are more than offsetting the Iraqi loss.
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It's still somewhat of a coin toss. The odds lean against the possibility of this coming up the Houston Ship Channel.
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The biggest surprise was the increase in distillate stocks.
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It's easy to analyze this one because there is only one number to talk about. That gasoline build was just huge again.