By Phil Flynn
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Draghi, Khamenei and an Oil Glut
Oil Prices retreated despite the fall in the Euro and a rebuff from Iran’s Supreme Leader rejected direct talks with the U.S mainly because of fears of a growing oil glut in the United States. While Mario Draghi cooled off the red hot euro and the precious metals by saying poilicy makers were concerned about the Euro’s meteoric rise and the man that can move the Euro with a word. First the promise to do whatever it takes and now just showing a bit of concern can break us. Yet while other commodities crumbled the weight of growing U.S supply drug down the complex.
The Brent WTI continued to widen in part because of the growing U.S. glut but also because of an increasing in the Geo-political risk trade. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dashed hopes that their might actually be progress being made with the Iranian nuclear soap opera. After Vice-President Joe Biden floated the idea and the Iranian Foreign minister showed some interest some hoped that there would be some light at the end of the negotiation tunnel. Yet the rejection by the Supreme Leader seems that those were false hopes or perhaps evidence that the Supreme Leader is just fearful of having to be in the same room as Vice President Biden. The Supreme whatever he is, Khamenei said that “Talks will not solve any problems, you are holding a gun against Iran saying, ‘Talks or you’ll fire.’ The Iranian nation will not be frightened by such threats”. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took it a step further by saying that “Talks are held to arrive at an understanding, not to impose anything,” Ahmadinejad said. “Such talks will be meaningless if someone raises a club and imposes” something on Iran.” (Yes like your election) He went on “Talks would be productive only if they were based on mutual respect, he said. “Things will be fine if the Americans correct the manner in which they address us.”
Yet those tough words come as the noose of sanctions continue to tighten around Iran’s neck. The geopolitical risk on trade for oil is long the Brent short the WTI. Bloomberg news reported that -- Iran, which dropped two places to become India’s fourth-largest crude supplier last year, may lose $2.5 billion of revenue as global sanctions prompt the South Asian nation to reduce purchases. Indian refiners may cut oil imports from Iran by as much as 20 percent in the year starting April 1 as the government seeks to keep its exemption from U.S. penalties on countries that trade with the Persian Gulf state, according to a Bloomberg News survey of five refinery officials. Iran would lose sales of at least 60,000 barrels a day of crude, worth about $2.5 billion a year, based on a reduction of that size from current contracted volumes, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Iran Heavy for sale to Asia, the grade preferred by Indian refiners, traded at about $113 a barrel yesterday.
Behind the scenes Bloomberg reports that Japan and Saudi Arabia will sign an agreement this weekend that will allow Tokyo to make emergency requests for additional supplies of crude oil, Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported in its Feb 8 edition. The agreement would set up a telephone hotline between the two governments to allow Japan to quickly seek additional oil supplies in the event of extraordinary circumstances such as terrorist attacks, unrest in the Middle East or a spike in the price of oil. Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshimitsu Motegi will travel to Saudi Arabia on Saturday to sign the pact, Nikkei said.
Nat gas sold off as the estimate came much closer to my estimate than the streets. The EIA reported that working gas in storage was 2,684 Bcf as of Friday, February 1, 2013, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net decline of 118 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 226 Bcf less than last year at this time and 351 Bcf above the 5-year average of 2,333 Bcf. In the East Region, stocks were 118 Bcf above the 5-year average following net withdrawals of 88 Bcf. Stocks in the Producing Region were 174 Bcf above the 5-year average of 819 Bcf after a net withdrawal of 20 Bcf. Stocks in the West Region were 59 Bcf above the 5-year average after a net drawdown of 10 Bcf. At 2,684 Bcf, total working gas is within the 5-year historical range.
Natural gas longer term is looking at an increase in power generation. Reuters said that power production in the continental United States for the week that ended Feb. 2 rose 6.2 percent from the corresponding week in 2012 to 76,374 gigawatt hours (GWh), according to data released Wednesday by the Edison Electric Institute. Output rose in all but one of the nine U.S. regions, with the largest year-on-year percentage gain in the West Central region at 15 percent to 6,054 GWh.
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