Gas Prices In Europe Are Now The Equivalent Of $230 Oil
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The move lower in oil prices so far this month has been excessive amid overblown worries about a strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) release and a hit to demand from the COVID resurgence in Europe and the United States.
“Our pricing model shows that the $8/bl price decline since late October is equivalent to the market pricing in a 4mn b/d combined hit to demand or increase in supply over the next three months”.
“This would be ... equivalent to a 100mn bl government stock release as well as a 1.75mn b/d hit to demand due to the current Covid resurgence”.
The U.S. was expected to release between 20 and 30 million barrels, with the rest of the group likely releasing a combined 30 million barrels.
The United States will release 50 million barrels of crude from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help cool oil prices,that will start hitting the market in mid- to late-December.
The release will take the form of a loan and a sale and was being in made concert with other releases from strategic reserves by China, India, South Korea, Japan and Britain.
As recently as March 2020, Texas had more than 400 active oil rigs. And that was well below the state’s roughly 900 active rigs in 2014. Today’s Texas rig count is a roughly 70% decline from those levels.
“We estimate 'true’ OPEC spare capacity in 2022 will be about 2 million barrels per day (43%) below consensus estimates of 4.8 million.
1. U.S. - China trade war
2. Rising dollar
3. Soaring inflation,
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