Saturday, February 24, 2024

This Week in Petroleum Summary February 22nd, 2024 per EIA.GOV

This week's full report

Indicators have aligned to suggest upward movement in consumption.



Pump prices have generally stabilized, but I would suggest an upward movement into the $3.50ish range. Very similar to early spring of last year, imho.


Refinery operation continues to ease off, according to the latest 4 wk average.

Crude inventories rose +3.5M barrels; distillates down -4.0M barrels; gasoline down -293K barrels.

For those interested, the exports of Crude, Petroleum Products, Including Gasoline has far outweighed the imports, by this much, since March, 2022.


I added the distillate/diesel category to reflect the volumes + percentages. Distillates per barrel are where the most profit for refineries lie. The current crack spread is $24.83 per barrel, with $12.91 coming from distillate and $11.91 from gasoline. 

All those numbers are down from previous week.

That's all for now. 

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