
Petroleum Daily Report 6-10-2020
Oil prices rose today, recovering losses from earlier in the session even as EIA data showed a build in crude oil stocks.
Timely petroleum, renewable fuels, railcar, and storage intelligence from the PFL team.

Oil prices rose today, recovering losses from earlier in the session even as EIA data showed a build in crude oil stocks.

Oil prices increased slightly today after yesterday’s drop. Goldman Sachs is calling for a 15-20% reduction in price which they say may already be underway after yesterday’s selloff.

Oil prices came off today despite weekend news of the OPEC+ extension that extended the historic 9.6MM/bpd cuts through July.

The AAR just released its monthly Rail Time Indicators Report where it reports railcars in storage. As of June 1, 2020, there were 520,729 empty railcars in storage (31.2% of the North America’s rail car fleet)

Coronavirus, COVID-19, North American Rig Count, Rail Report, railcar volumes

Oil prices rose today after an unexpected fall in the May US Jobless rate boosted financial markets across a variety of sectors

Crude Oil Imports into China jumped up 13% from April to a near record high of 11.11 million BDP.

Crude stocks were down
.07MM/bbls, compared to a forecasted build of 3.039MM/bbls.

Oil futures traded down today as protesters flooded streets across the US and the world. China contention is also causing negative pressure on pricing

Increasing trade tensions with China since the latter part of 2019 coupled with the question on how China’s COVID-19 will impact global supply chains has been on the minds of those who work in the rail industry