Weekly Energy Market Update details current energy market events impacting the direction of crude and refined products. Weekly DOE inventories are posted as well as market details on crude, gasoline and heating oil before and after the release of this data. Hedging recommendations and relevant crude, propane, gasoline, heating oil, crack spreads and commodity relationship charts are included.
DOE Weekly Report May 16, 2012 at 9:30 CST:
Crude (excluding SPR): Up: (+2.128) MMbbls
(SPR inventory: 696MM bbls)
Distillate: Down: (-0.969) MMbbls
Gasoline: Down: (-2.797) MMbbls
Jet Fuel: Down: (-0.956) MMbbls
Residual Fuel Oil: Up: (+0.288) MMbbls
Refinery Runs: 88.3% Up (+1.9%)
Crude was bearish/neutral relative to expectations of Up: (+1.700) MMbbls
Distillate was bullish relative to expectations of Up: (+0.600) MMbbls
Gasoline was bullish relative to expectations of Down: (-0.500) MMbbls
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