{"id":52010,"date":"2020-03-29T12:23:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T17:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52010"},"modified":"2020-03-29T12:23:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T17:23:46","slug":"the-unthinkable-is-happening-oil-storage-space-is-about-to-run-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52010","title":{"rendered":"The Unthinkable Is Happening: Oil Storage Space Is About To Run Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/energy\/unthinkable-happening-oil-storage-space-about-run-out\">The Unthinkable Is Happening: Oil Storage Space Is About To Run Out<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past three weeks, oil plunged and has continued to plunge even more in the aftermath of the oil price war declared between Saudi Arabia and Russia, and where US shale (and its junk bonds) has been caught in the crossfire. However, as we reported&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/oil-plunges-17-year-low-one-bank-predicts-negative-oil-prices\">last week<\/a>, we may get to the absurd point when the price of a barrel of oil not only hits $0 but goes negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason: according to Mizuho\u2019s Paul Sankey, at a whopping 15MM b\/d in oversupply, crude prices could go negative as Saudi and Russian barrels enter the market. According to Sankey, much of the US 4MM bpd in crude exports will be curtailed as prices fall and tanker rates soar. And with US storage roughly 50% full, and able to take another 135MM bbl more, assuming a build rate of 2MM b\/d, the US can add 14MM bbl\/week for 10 weeks until full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, there is a now race between filling storage and negative pricing &#8220;unless U.S. decline rates can outpace inventory builds, which we very much doubt.&#8221; Said otherwise, absent dramatic changes, in roughly 3 months, energy merchants will be paying you if you generously take a couple million barrels of crude off their hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It went from bad to an outright disaster\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/oil-plunges-after-iea-hints-russia-saudis-would-need-completely-halt-output-balance-market\">earlier this week\u00a0<\/a>when Goldman, Vitol, and the IEA all raised their estimate for daily oil oversupply to an unthinkable 20 million barrels per day, as a result of the collapse in oil demand as the global economy grinds to a halt coupled with Saudi Arabia&#8217;s determination to put all of its higher-cost OPEC peers out of business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unthinkable Is Happening: Oil Storage Space Is About To Run Out In the past three weeks, oil plunged and has continued to plunge even more in the aftermath of the oil price war declared between Saudi Arabia and Russia, and where US shale (and its junk bonds) has been caught in the crossfire. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[589,592,1097,595,4044,596,701,827,4318],"class_list":["post-52010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-oil-demand","tag-oil-price","tag-oil-price-war","tag-oil-production","tag-oil-storage","tag-oil-supply","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52011,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52010\/revisions\/52011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}