There is no tension on the oil side due to refinery losses. There is no tension on the product side thanks to the 1 mb/d product deliveries from European strategic reserves. But how long is that going to last?
Don't you think that the market is very unusual in that there is a very short term excess of supply at the same time as a strong likelihood of inverse imbalances in the medium term?
I'll stick to my end of year bet of 100$ for oil.
Your points on natural gas are of course well noted. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
At these mogas cracks ($1.87=$78.5-$62 =$16.5!!!) any refiner will keep runs at max till doomsday. Winter cracks used to be about $3 with heat about $4....
How much mogas is really coming out of tank from the stragetic reserves? Much of the planned releases from the SPR never happened as no one wanted/needed it.