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If it costs a premium today of $20+/bbl to ship out of the Persian gulf vs. pre-war, in combined VLCC and insurance costs, what is the practical difference to the market now that volumes are supposedly "normalized'?
Worth a read. I think it's more than optimistic, but even if it's not, the "Omani Shuttle" is adding at least $20/bbl. to transport costs. And, of course, it doesn't much add to product exports, where the prices are mostly felt.
Strategic oil stockpiles in China and the US are down to ~40%. They can't go to zero – so every cut in the drawdown ratchets price higher. Made the case on @chrislhayes' show last week.
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CHART OF THE DAY: Back in April, JPMorgan modelled a dramatic collapse in global oil inventories. Now, they take a look back at what they predicted (🟣) and what really happened (🟢).
They conclude: "… Fears of inventories being close to exhausted as a balancing mechanism are premature […] For now, there is still ample inventory to cushion a prolonged disruption before operational stress levels are reached, which limits the need for crude prices to move materially higher...”
This free post of mine from Matrix Energy Partners from late July has aged, unfortunately for truck drivers, far too well: members.dandicker.com/oil-yo…
Hmmmm......I've been arguing since May that when the bullshit catches up to the fundamentals, this kind of talk of resilience is going to disappear fast -- seems like even $102 isn't enough though........so standby and hang on to something.
I think we can call an official end to the latest oil price panic around the attack on the Saudi East-West pipeline. What we learning - over and over - is that the global oil market is way more resilient and robust than the $200 oil crowd likes to admit...
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Relying upon the Saudi E-W pipeline return at 50% to somehow 'relieve' Persian Gulf oil and products exports is like getting a repaired squirt gun to tackle a wildfire. (plug one hole in a colander? band-aid on an open artery?) Insert your own analogy......
Saudi Arabia is seeking to return ~50% of the capacity of its cross-country East-West oil pipeline within days, a person familiar with the matter said.
The pipeline was attacked last week, with 3 pumping stations hit, according to the US government.
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Dan Dicker retweeted
🇺🇸🛢️ America’s oil buffer is being drained from both sides at once.
Since early April:
Total crude inventories: 712M barrels
Drawn: 166M barrels
Consecutive weekly declines: 17, the longest streak on record
But the bigger story sits inside the SPR.
Washington has released 111M barrels since March, taking the reserve down to 305M barrels, its lowest level since 1983.
Normally, emergency barrels are supposed to compensate for weakness elsewhere.
This time commercial inventories are falling too, now down for 10 straight weeks.
So the Gulf crisis is not simply shifting barrels from government tanks into private storage.
The entire U.S. crude cushion is shrinking.
⚠️ That works while the disruption is temporary. The longer the crisis lasts, the more important the remaining 305M SPR barrels become.
America built the reserve for exactly this kind of shock.
Now the shock is consuming it.
Oil: You Think the Pipes Improved With Age?
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Everyone else was talking. We were just buying. Portfolio up +12% in a month. Want some?
MEP: first trade is already paid for.
6/29: 20% into XOM + a WTI call spread I've never recommended to subscribers before
Full trade alert, made public: members.dandicker.com/mep-po…
More positions building. Some now cheaper than my own entry: members.dandicker.com/#/port…
Dan Dicker retweeted
🚨Jeff Currie: "I'd argue in my entire career, I have never seen an energy environment this tight."
The US SPR sits near a 43-year low, with barely 19 million barrels of cushion above the operating floor
Refining margins just hit a record $60+ a barrel, 6x the 40 year average, driven by supply absence, not demand
Roughly 6 million bpd of global refining capacity is offline between Russia, China and the Middle East
Currie is betting the barrels win.
Matrix Energy Partners - portfolio update 7/7/26
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MEP Portfolio ALERT - 6/29/26
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Dan Dicker retweeted
This morning, I joined @CNBC and @MorganLBrennan to discuss the latest moves in oil markets.
My view is that while the market is in surplus today, that tells us nothing about tomorrow.
Over the past three to four weeks, we’ve seen previously trapped crude pushed out through the Strait, and that supply is now hitting the market. That helps explain the recent move lower, but it’s a temporary dynamic rather than a shift in the broader balance.
The market has likely overshot to the downside.
At the same time, underlying conditions remain tight. Shipping risks persist, only limited lanes are operational, and flows are still constrained.
There is also a growing disconnect in the system. We have surplus crude, but a shortage in refined products, with margins at extremely elevated levels. That is likely to drive refineries to increase runs to capture those returns.
Inventories remain depleted, and in that kind of environment the system cannot adjust smoothly. It tends to move from small surpluses to tightness very quickly, driving significant volatility in both directions.
I would view the current weakness as temporary rather than indicative of a more balanced market.
Watch the full interview here: cnbc.com/video/2026/06/26/cu…
Thanks again to the @Squawkstreet team for having me on.
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