Oil Markets analysis

Gain a deep understanding of global, regional, and benchmark fundamentals to inform your trade and hedging decisions. Energy Aspects' Crude Oil service offers forward-looking oil market analysis of global supply, demand, trade, inventory, and pricing data, making it essential for navigating today’s oil markets.

Key features:

• Market analysis: In-depth oil market analysis of fundamentals, sentiment, and positioning.
• Price forecasts: Data-driven short-term price forecasts.
• Supply and demand: Comprehensive coverage of upstream, refining, and demand markets.
  

Energy Aspects' Oil Products service provides fully integrated refined product analysis across the entire barrel. We offer complete coverage of the global refined product market, with oil market analysis and data highlighting trends at the top (naphtha and gasoline), middle (jet fuel, gasoil, and diesel), and bottom (fuel oil and residues) of the barrel.

Key Features:

• Product analysis: Detailed reports all the key oil products markets across the barrel.
• Market dynamics: Insights into market trends and consumer behaviour.
• Regulatory impact: Analysis of regulatory changes and their impact on oil products.
  

Energy Aspects' LPG & NGLs service delivers comprehensive insights into the Natural Gas Liquids market, providing critical data and analysis on supply, demand, trade, inventory, and pricing trends. This service is vital for anyone involved in the NGLs market, from producers to end-users.

Key features:

• Market analysis: In-depth analysis of global NGL markets.
• Supply and demand: Detailed insights into the NGL value chain, from extraction to end-use applications.
• Trade flows: Comprehensive data on global trade movements and regional market dynamics.
  

Empower your decision-making with near real-time data and analytics. Refining is a critical process in transforming crude oil into usable products. Our coverage includes in-depth analytics and data on all aspects of the global refining landscape, both short and long term.

Key features:

• Market analysis: Keep on top of all the key refining dynamics driving the global crude and products markets.
• Wide ranging datasets: Track the evolution of capacity, maintenance, utilisation, runs and margins down to a refinery level.
• Shifting dynamics: Assess changes in crude slates and shifts in product yields.
  

Energy Aspects' Medium-term Refining service provides comprehensive global refining supply and demand balance, accounting for capacity changes, yield shifts, and biofuels impact. This service delivers detailed projections on refining margins, crude demand by quality, and capacity forecasts across all major regions and the US. Our analysis supports investors, producers, downstream strategy groups and government bodies in developing robust plans that align with future market conditions and regulatory developments. 

Key features:

• Market forecasting: Complete global product and crude supply-demand balances with detailed capacity projections.
• Strategic analysis: Advanced models that highlight the shape of trade flows and margin trends across regions. 
• Scenario planning: Evaluation of market conditions and regulatory changes to support confident decision-making. 
  

Energy Aspects' Methanol (MMSA) service delivers market-leading analysis built on almost 30 years of specialist experience in methanol market assessment and techno-commercial project support. Our service provides detailed global methanol and derivatives supply and demand data, pricing and cost/margin analysis, industry supply curves, vessel tracking, MTO affordability insights, and low carbon methanol project tracking. This essential intelligence is distributed to chemical producers, traders and energy companies worldwide, supporting strategic decisions with objective, balanced market perspectives and deep industry expertise. 

Key features:

• Market forecasting: Detailed global methanol and derivatives supply-demand balances with integrated pricing models.
• Advanced analytics: Proprietary datasets and models refined over decades of specialist experience. 
• Low-carbon expertise: Specialised support for emerging low-carbon methanol projects with a unique industry database. 
  

Experience digital oil market analytics with the OilX platform, which combines conventional oil statistics with real-time data from satellites and maritime intelligence to deliver the most precise measurement of the global oil market.

Key features:

• Global oil balance: Real-time view of global oil supply-demand balances.
• Oil production: Global oil production and refining by country and region, updated daily including satellite-based daily flaring monitoring.
• Cargo Tracking: Oil tanker tracking by vessel, cargo and country flows.
• Oil storage: Global oil stocks segmented by commercial and governmental stocks, by country. Satellite-based crude oil storage monitoring by terminal and crude quality powered by ESA.
  

Energy Aspects' TankWatch® Cushing service delivers the most frequent and accurate per-tank, per-operator oil inventory data from the critical Cushing, Oklahoma hub. Using high-resolution imagery and specially developed algorithms, this service provides first-to-market insights into daily changes in WTI stocks at the 90-million-barrel capacity storage site. These measurements offer crucial visibility into potential supply and demand shifts, helping traders understand crude oil composition at Cushing and providing vital intelligence for forming views on the future liquidity of physical deliverables against WTI NYMEX. 

Key features:

• Asset monitoring: Real-time intelligence on storage levels at purchased or leased trader assets. 
• Data accuracy and timeliness: Released two days before the EIA figures with the highest accuracy compared to EIA figures. 
• Consistent reporting: Four detailed data reports per week with extensive historical data since 2018.