EIA - Petroleum Status Report - Aug 5

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Summary of Weekly Petroleum Data for the week ending July 31, 2020

U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 14.6 million barrels per day during the week ending July 31, 2020 which was 42,000 barrels per day more than the previous week’s average. Refineries
operated at 79.6% of their operable capacity last week. < Still way below where it should be this time of year (~95%).
Gasoline production increased last week, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day.
Distillate fuel production increased last week, averaging 4.9 million barrels per day.

U.S. crude oil imports averaged 6.0 million barrels per day last week, increased by 0.9 million barrels per day from the previous week. < Previous week down due to hurricane in GOM.
Over the past four weeks, crude oil imports averaged about 5.7 million barrels per day, 18.1% less than the same four-week period last year.
Total motor gasoline imports (including both finished gasoline and gasoline blending components) last week averaged 657,000 barrels per day, and distillate fuel imports averaged 131,000 barrels per day.

> U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) decreased by 7.4 million barrels from the previous week. At 518.6 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are about 16% above the five year average for this time of year. < Falling because of big drop in U.S. production.
> Total motor gasoline inventories increased by 419,000 barrels last week and are about 8% above the five year average for this time of year. Finished gasoline inventories decreased while blending components inventories increased last week.
> Distillate fuel inventories increased by 1.6 million barrels last week and are about 27% above the five year average for this time of year.
> Propane/propylene inventories increased by 2.3 million barrels last week and are about 13% above the five year average for this time of year.
>>Total commercial petroleum inventories decreased last week by 2.1 million barrels last week.

Total products supplied over the last four-week period averaged 18.3 million barrels a day, down by 13.5% from the same period last year.
Over the past four weeks, motor gasoline product supplied averaged 8.7 million barrels a day, down by 9.1% from the same period last year.
Distillate fuel product supplied averaged 3.6 million barrels a day more than the past four weeks, down by 8.7% from the same period last year.
Jet fuel product supplied was down 40.9% compared with the same four-week period last year. < Jet fuel demand is on the rise as air travel back to close to 90% of pre-pandemic level.

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AEGIS Alerts - EIA reports another large depletion of oil stocks, Saudi imports fall to the second lowest level on record

EIA reported a draw of -7373 MBbls in U.S. crude-oil inventories for the week ending 7/31/2020. This was larger than the average estimate of -2309 MBbls as reported by Bloomberg.

Prices were up five minutes following the announcement, to $43.36, from $43.28 just before 9:30am.

Inventories for the US are now at a surplus of 82.051 MBbls to last year and a surplus of 70.13 MBbls to the five-year average.