Hi to all,
Here’s what I have
for this week’s price changes:
*Heating and stove
oils to drop by 1.2 cents a litre.
*Diesel fuel shows
a drop of 1/10th of a cent a litre (no change) and...
*Gasoline shows a
slight drop of 8/10ths of a cent a litre.
Market highlights
Saudi’s turn on the
taps
OPEC member Saudi
Arabia surprised everyone, including fellow OPEC member with the release of
production figures earlier this week that caught even the markets off-guard.
Saudi Arabia produced almost 10.7 million barrels a day during June month, up
from 9.98 million barrels in May, and most of it ahead of the June 22nd
meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC members who only then agreed to increase
production.
Venezuela was the big loser of production amidst internal problems as
production there slipped below 1.4 million barrels a day from an average daily
production of 2.91 million barrels a day in 2017.
OPEC still has a long way to go to meet the shortfall in oil worldwide, but it
is widely believed that only the Saudi’s can meet any needed production
immediately to the markets.
Oil markets remain
mostly “neutral” this week
The latest U.S
Energy Information Administration inventory report, while nothing to cheer
about, at least didn’t give speculators reason to celebrate.
With refiner capacity down slightly by 4/10ths of a percentage point, crude oil
inventories showed a slight increase of 1.2 million barrels all amidst market
chatter of significant crude shortfalls and supply outages.
Also, with the drop in capacity came a very slight decrease of 1.5 million
barrels of gasoline, showing that production is close to meeting any demand for
product out there.
Prices remain at a balance at a critical time however, as any drop in refiner
capacity will have to be met with an increase in product in order to avoid any
increase to consumer prices. That may be hard as consumers hit the roads for
the holidays.
Canadian dollar up
slightly
The Canadian dollar
increased slightly against it’s U.S cousin over the past week, rising
close on 1.5 cents against the greenback.
With
prices for refined product also staying mostly fixed over the past seven days,
the dollar increase translated to a corresponding drop in prices, mostly
affecting heating oil and gasoline prices.
That’s it for this
week!
Regards,
George Murphy
Twitter
@GeorgeMurphyOil
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