Coquest Daily Energy Report
Crude Oil Futures for May 2023 settled down $0.94 @ $69.96/bbl. trading in a $2.49 range including the overnight-RBOB settled up 1.27/cpg and Heating Oil settled down 5.56/cpg. According to Energy Information Administration data, total products supplied over the last four-week period averaged 19.7 million barrels a day, down by -6.2% from the same period last year. Over the past four weeks, motor gasoline product supplied averaged 8.8 million barrels a day, down by -0.2% from the same period last year. Distillate fuel product supplied averaged 3.8 million barrels a day over the past four weeks, down by -12.7% from the same period last year. Jet fuel product supplied was up +6.7% compared with the same four-week period last year.
Natural Gas Futures for April 2023 settled down $0.017 @ $2.154/mmbtu trading in a 0.125 cent range including the overnight session. In 2022, Europe increased LNG imports to an all-time high of 14.9 bcf/d, +65.0% or 5.9 bcf/d more than in the previous year, according to industry leading data. Similar to 2021, three countries—the United States, Qatar, and Russia provided 73.0% or 10.8 bcf/d of Europe’s LNG imports in 2022. Excluding intra-regional trade, the remaining 3.8 bcf/d of LNG imports was supplied by 14 other LNG-exporting countries. Europe’s LNG import capacity expanded in 2022, and its expected to grow by one-third by the end of 2024 as countries add new LNG regasification facilities and expand existing import terminals.
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