Oil demand and supply16 Aug 2020 18:22
With regards to USA supply it has dropped from 13M barrels a day to 10.7M barrels a day week ending 7th Aug. A high percentage of current USA production is not tight oil (not fracking). USA consumption pre-Covid 19 was 20 M barrels a day and was down to 14.7M in May 2020. In May, Japan was down in demand by 1.4M, Canada down 0.9M, Japan, Germany and Brazil down 0.3M each. Going the other way was a recovery of 1.8M in China and 0.3M in South Korea. So the key is very much a demand recovery in the USA. Some demand in Germany has probably arisen since May and certainly up in Saudi Arabia. As I mentioned August oil buying by China dips and it rebounds in September.
At the present time we have Europe trying to prevent a second spike and US recovering from a second spike and trying to maintain progress.