WTI Spikes After Biggest Crude Draw In A Year

Oil prices briefly spiked after last night’s API-reported big crude draw, but that reverted back lower fast. Overnight has seen a small roller-coaster with prices slipping during the US session and then a series of bad news data point in the US sparking a ‘good news for Fed cuts’ response in oil prices, holding just above green on the day.

The question is – was API’s data fluke…

API

• Crude -9.16mm – biggest draw since mid-Jan 2024

• Cushing +404k

• Gasoline +2.47mm

• Distillates -740k

DOE

• Crude -12.16mm – biggest draw since Jul 2023

• Cushing +345k

• Gasoline -2.21mm

• Distillates -1.54mm

Nope. The official data confirms the huge crude draw last week (which we suspect was pre-emptive draws ahead of ‘Beryl’

Source: Bloomberg

Adjusted for the 398k barrel addition to SPR, the 11.579mm barrtel draw was the largest since the last week of July last year…

Source: Bloomberg

Oil prices spiked on the big crude draw…

Source: Bloomberg

Even if crude prices ease a little, pump-prices are set to rise further…

Source: Bloomberg

Pouring more salt in President Biden’s polling wounds.