John Kemp, Reuters, updates us weekly on hedge fund activity in oil markets, here... ”Hedge funds sold petroleum futures and options for the second
Cryptocurrency update… Bloomberg
Now that Bitcoin has move off the front page, Olga Kharif, Bloomberg, tells us, with caution, that Tether is now the most active
Equinor Starts Production From Giant Field… Bloomberg
Mikael Holter, Bloomberg, on Equinor’s forecasted production: ”Discovered in 2010 in an area that had been disregarded by most explorers, the site
Yesterday’s odd WTI put volume…
Note the unusually low put volume from Friday’s trading... Here is a snapshot from the CME’s Most Active Strike tool below... Is this meaningful? Did
Oil shipping costs surge… WSJ
From Ryan Dezember, Wall Street Journal, here... ”Heightened demand for tankers to make the voyage from the U.S. Gulf Coast, from which most
Permian crude fundamentals… RBN Energy
The always excellent RBN Energy discusses Permian fundamentals, here... ”The Permian’s crude-oil landscape is continually changing — there is
Most Active Strikes, WTI
It’s not often we see a strike trading 10,o00 contracts in a day anymore and even yesterday one needs to round up the Dec $65 call which traded 9,724
World Oil Demand…WSJ
Monthly oil reports from the IEA, OPEC and the EIA aren’t yet out for October, but Amrith Ramkumar and Sarah Toy, Wall Street Journal, have a nice
US Crude Oil Exports Continue to Grow.. EIA
From the EIA’s This Week In Petroleum: ”In the first half of 2019, U.S. exports of crude oil increased to average 2.9 million barrels per day








