Energy Intelligence Briefing articles from December 2006

Energy Intelligence Briefing archives from December 2006

Iraq losing struggle to keep crude exports flowing.
December 1, 2006... NEW YORK -- Iraqi oil officials have informed term customers and shipping agents to expect fewer liftings in December because the country's main export terminal in Basrah will be shut for at least four days for repairs, market and shipping...

Moscow defies cold, strongly boosts loadings.
December 1, 2006... MOSCOW -- Defying the onset of colder weather and breaking through its own predictions for Russia's flagship port of Primorsk, state oil pipeline monopoly Transneft has plotted out an unexpected 220,000 barrel per day increase in seaborne crude...

Market compass.
December 1, 2006... LONDON -- One month ago Russian Urals crude was priced at dated Brent minus $3.50 c.i.f. Northwest Europe (NWE) and minus $3.35 c.i.f. Italy; or $57.10 for dated Brent and $53.60 for Urals c.i.f. NWE. That constellation varied only slightly...

Primorsk crude loading program December 2006.
December 1, 2006... Date Position holder (producer) Vol.* 30-01 Lukoil 100 30-01 TNK-BP Holding 100 01-02 Surgutneftegas 100 01-02 TNK-BP Holding 100 02-03 Lukoil ...

Novorossiysk crude loading program for December 2006.
December 1, 2006... Date Position holder (producer) Vol.* 30-01 Rosneft 140 01-02 TNK-BP Holding 140 03-04 Surgutneftegas 133 04-05...

Gdansk crude loading program for December 2006.
December 1, 2006... Date Position holder (producer) Vol.* 08-09 TNK-BP Holding 86 14-15 Gazprom Neft 86 20-21 Kaztransoil ([dagger]) 123 24-25 TNK-BP Holding (43) 86 Gazprom Neft (43) 27-28...

Tuapse crude loading program for December 2006.
December 1, 2006... Date Position holder (producer) Vol.* 30-02 Gazprom Neft (50) 57 Tomskgazprom (7) 03-07 Gazprom Neft 75 09-12 Lukoil 65 14-18 Russneft 76 19-22...

Odessa crude loading program for December 2006.
December 1, 2006... Date Position holder (producer) Vol.* '03-04 Kaztransoil 50 06-07 Kaztransoil 80 10-11 Kaztransoil 80 12-13 Kaztransoil 80 15-16 Kaztransoil ...

Yuzhny crude loading program for December 2006.
December 1, 2006... Date Position holder (producer) Vol.* 15-16 Surgutneftegas 80 21-22 Surgutneftegas 80 24-25 Surgutneftegas 80 28-29 Surgutneftegas 80 December Total ...

West African oil loaders take wait-and-see attitude.
December 8, 2006... LONDON -- After stellar trading in January loaders that drove premiums on light, sweet Nigerian crude to record levels, the West African market has shifted into wait-and-see mode, as trading activity calmed down. Premiums for the remaining...

Backing among ministers grows for fresh Opec action.
December 13, 2006... ABUJA -- Opec goes into its extraordinary ministerial meeting in Nigeria later on Wednesday or Thursday with several ministers arguing that fresh action is needed to limit production and so further erode seasonally high--though rapidly...

Russian export plans again show drop in crude sales.
December 18, 2006... MOSCOW -- Pipelines to Lithuania are officially set to remain dry through at least the end of March, as Moscow has allotted no volumes to en mither the Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) refinery or to the port of Butinge in the first quarter of next year....

North Sea loadings data do little to clear market fog.
December 22, 2006... LONDON -- Opec's Dec. 14 decision to cut production by an additional 500,000 barrels per day, albeit not until Feb. 1, 2007, triggered an initial price recovery that took front-month Brent futures from a premeeting low of $61.05 to a...

North American natural gas market heads for collapse.(Industry overview)
December 27, 2006... HOUSTON -- Logic would suggest the natural gas market's hitting its highest prices of the year in the coming days and months, but intemperate weather has a habit of being maddeningly illogical. Warmer-than-normal temperatures across much of...

Iraq pins hopes on new northern export crude pipeline.
December 28, 2006... NEW YORK -- Security and weather problems have plagued Iraqi oil production and sales for much of the year, but the country expects better days for its oil industry in 2007. Feeding the optimism is the opening of a new oil pipeline within the...

Preliminary loading schedule, January 2007.
December 28, 2006... Date Vol.[dagger] Vessel Lifter Dest. 1 1,000 Gesco IOC India 1 500 Bagi IOC India 2 2,000 Titan Leo TPI Thailand 2 2,000 ...

Iraqi loading program, December 2006.
December 28, 2006... Date Vol.[dagger] Vessel Lifter Dest. 1 2,000 C. Dream NA USG 1 2,000 Prem Putli IOC India 2 1,000 Ellen P. Repsol Spain 4 ...

Iraqi loading program, November 2006.
December 28, 2006... Date Vol.[dagger] Vessel Lifter Dest. 1 2,000 Front Energy NA Europe 1 1,000 Oceam Opal NA Asia 6 2,000 V.K. Eddie NA Europe 7 2,000 ...

Russian crude oil exports see small increase in January.
December 29, 2006... MOSCOW--Russia's January loading schedules have been set at 3.12 million barrels per day (13.193 million metric tons), up from 2.98 million b/d (12.589 million tons) penciled in seaborne oil exports in December. The main increase comes from the...

Market compass.
December 29, 2006... Russian Urals differentials have firmed a little over the Christmas holidays--primarily in response to an improvement in refining margins for sour grades compared to sweets. Weakening crude futures prices and easing freight rates have helped...

Gdansk crude loading program for January 2007.
December 29, 2006... Date Position holder (producer) Vol.* 07-08 Gazprom Neft 103 14-15 TNK-BP Holding 100 18-19 Kaztransoil[dagger] 126 21-22 Bashneft 94 24-25 TNK-BP Holding ...

Tuapse crude loading program for January 2007.
December 29, 2006... Date Position holder (producer) Vol.* 03-07 Gazprom Neft 75 09-12 Lukoil 60 14-16 TNK-BP Holding 46 18-21 Russneft ...

Primorsk crude loading program for January 2007.
December 29, 2006... Date Position holder (producer) Vol.* 31-01 Lukoil 100 01-02 Surgutneftegas 100 01-02 TNK-BP Holding 100 02-03 Lukoil 100 02-03 Gazprom Neft ...

Yuzhny crude loading program for January 2007.
December 29, 2006... Date Position holder (producer) Vol.* 06-07 Surgutneftegas 80 09-10 TNK-BP Holding 85 12-13 TNK-BP Holding 85 14-15 TNK-BP Holding 85 16-17 Rosneft ...

Odessa crude loading program for January 2007.
December 29, 2006... Date Position holder (producer) Vol.* 02-03 Kaztransoil 50 05-06 Kaztransoil 80 08-09 Kaztransoil 80 11-12 Kaztransoil 80 13-14 Kaztransoil ...

Novorossiysk crude loading program for January 2007.
December 29, 2006... Berth 1 Position holder (producer) Vol.* 31-01 AIOC (carried over from December) 145 01-02 Rosneft 142 03-04 TNK-BP...