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Saudi Arabia Sends Wave Of Supertankers To U.S. Ahead Of Oil Meeting
The world’s top oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, is making good on its promise to flood the world with oil even as demand collapses, with a surge in tankers carrying Saudi crude to the United States, tanker-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg showed on Wednesday.
Last month, when Saudi Arabia pledged to flood the markets with oil, the Kingdom’s crude oil exports to the U.S. hit a one-year-high of 516,000 barrels per day (bpd), according to the data compiled by Bloomberg.
So far this month, at least seven supertankers carrying a total of 14 million barrels of oil are currently traveling to the U.S. Gulf Coast. This compares to just 2 million barrels of Saudi oil en route to America in the same period in March. Almost all tankers are chartered by the Saudi state-run shipping firm Bahri, according to the data compiled by Bloomberg.
Just after the collapse of the OPEC+ production cut deal in early March, Saudi Arabia’s Bahri was understood to have hired multiple very large crude carriers to carry all the extra oil that the Kingdom planned on exporting in April—a rare move indeed for the shipping company that sports its own fleet of 41 tankers.
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And with May at 2450 and May/Jun at 500, that roll will reduce their purchasing power by 17%*! Oh the beauty of roll yield!
* For those that don't understand. If USO has $3.5B in assets invested in May CL then they have about 143M barrels of Oil. When they sell May and buy June they will only have 119M barrels of Oil because June is so much more expensive. So if the market goes back up to where it was a month ago, USO will only regain 83% of what it lost, because of the lost purchasing power from the roll
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Another 15mm build in the EIA report today (vs expectations in the 9-11 range). Storage filling up quickly (29M in 2 weeks!) although the market didn't react at all!
If WTI Crude Oil futures prices settle, in any month, to a price between $8.00/bbl and
$11.00/bbl, CME Clearing MAY switch its pricing and margining options models from the
existing models to the Bachelier model, currently utilized in numerous spread options
products where negative underlying prices and strike levels are a regular occurrence. If
any WTI Crude Oil futures prices settle, in any month, to a level below $8.00/bbl, CME
Clearing WILL move to the Bachelier model for all WTI Crude oil options contracts as
well as all related crude oil options contracts effective the following trade date. CME
Clearing will send out an advisory notice with one day notice before any implementation
occurs with all appropriate details.
I looked for a layman's definition of the Bachelier model but couldn't find anything easy to understand.
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Did some work on this a few weeks ago. For the oil storage play your only interested in ULCCs/VLCCs, so your looking for companies that have the highest concentration of VLCCs in the their fleets that were not already booked out on time charters. DHT and EURN are good candidates followed by FRO and STNG. They all had big run ups when CL went to $20 but in the last week have given up all their gains and are surprisingly trading near long term lows again. I know crude has rallied but May/Jul is still trading $8. If your bold they all have options as well which all have implied volatilities over 100%
Disclosure: I have long delta positions in all 4 names mentioned.
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Worth reading especially the chartbook
Reuters/John Kemp :- Oil industry crisis starkly revealed in U.S. weekly data Story here and Chartbook here
Petroleum products supplied to the domestic market, a proxy for total consumption, fell by 7 million barrels per day (bpd) or one-third over just three weeks between March 13 and April 3