RE: Well..9 Nov 2019 09:20
Great post NTMY and you are absolutely right you need to have a view on oil if you are investing in AIM oilers atm. Your view is very in tune with why the market is pricing oil as it is.
My view is the market is pricing oil incorrectly. It does not help that the data they follow is consistently wrong, such as the EIA which is mostly keenly followed. Goehrng & Rozencwajg have just released their latest commodity report that goes into the oil market in depth. The EIA have significantly underestimated demand for 8 out of the last 9 years creating missing barrels of oil of nearly 1mbopd! Also they have consistently over estimated US supply (also contributing to the massive number of missing barrels).
There are a number of dynamics coming into play in the US that suggest oil is peaking, hitting issues with financing, parent child and drilling out of their tier 1 production. However would $80 WTI help that, I suspect so but will it make much of a dent in the 1.5m bopd year growth in demand. Also few producers in the world have a switch they can flick to rapidly increase demand if needed these days.
Also with the Saudi attack, they did an excellent job of smoothing through the problem (drawing down on their global network of storage) but some respected commentators I follow said the real effects would be felt a few month later. This is why I feel oil is looking so strong atm (look at yesterday’s reversal). So I am bullish on oil short and long term, just not so sure about the medium term :-).