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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 86.49 | -0.63 | -0.72% | ||
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Bonny Light • 23 hours | 88.40 | -0.92 | -1.03% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 88.45 | +1.94 | +2.24% | ||
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Mars US • 174 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Bonny Light • 23 hours | 88.40 | -0.92 | -1.03% | ||
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Girassol • 23 hours | 89.03 | -0.87 | -0.97% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 88.45 | +1.94 | +2.24% |
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Peace Sour • 22 hours | 76.01 | -0.55 | -0.72% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 22 hours | 79.06 | -0.55 | -0.69% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 22 hours | 86.01 | -0.55 | -0.64% | ||
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Central Alberta • 22 hours | 76.41 | -0.55 | -0.71% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 79.29 | -0.04 | -0.05% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 79.25 | -0.50 | -0.63% | ||
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Kansas Common • 23 hours | 73.75 | +0.75 | +1.03% | ||
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Buena Vista • 2 days | 87.23 | -0.55 | -0.63% |
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Oil Inventories Near Breaking Point As API Reports 13 Million Barrel Build
The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated on Tuesday another large crude oil inventory build of 13.226 million barrels for the week ending April 17 as the demand destruction continues unchecked and stay-at-home orders in the United States drag on.
Today’s inventory build was smaller than the expected 15.15 million barrels.
In the previous week, the API estimated a large build in crude oil inventories of 13.134 million barrels, while the EIA’s estimates were for a build of 19.2 million barrels for that week.
Oil prices were trading down on Tuesday afternoon prior to the API’s data release, although up considerably from Monday when WTI was trading in negative numbers, as was the May 2020 futures contract.
At 4:25 pm EDT on Tuesday the WTI benchmark was trading down on the day by $7.32 (-35.83%) at $13.11—down roughly $7 per barrel week over week. The price of a Brent barrel was also trading down on Tuesday, by $5.72 (-22.37%), at $19.85—down nearly $10 week on week.
The API reported a build of 3.435 million barrels of gasoline for week ending April 17, after last week’s 2.226-million-barrel build. This week’s build compares to analyst expectations for a larger 3.578-million-barrel build for the week.
Distillate inventories were up by 7.639 million barrels for the week, compared to last week’s 5.640-barrel build, while Cushing inventories saw a large gain of 4.913 million barrels.
US crude oil production as estimated by the Energy Information Administration showed that production for the week ending April 10 fell to 12.3 million bpd—down 100,000 bpd for the week, and down 800,000 from its high.
At 4:41 pm EDT, WTI was trading at $13.05 while Brent was trading at $19.80.
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