North America Crude Market Solution

Offering forecasts for crude pricing, pipeline utilization and hub flows (volumes and quality) and export terminal volumes, our North American Crude Markets Service aids operation and logistics planning, as well as investment decisions.

Our service goes beyond pricing, weaving together the pipelines, rail and water movement outlooks with the supply and demand centres. The service delivers:

• Annual average price projections/assumptions of 18 crudes, updated twice per year
• Volume and crude quality forecasts for pipeline utilization and hub flows
• US export terminal volume forecasts
• US crude quality outlook and market implications, updated twice per year
• Monthly report on short-term changes in supply, demand, imports, exports and stocks
• Logistics developments and commentary on market impact
• Long term view on US export volumes and markets, updated twice per year
• Long term US crude demand by quality outlook
• Reconciliation of supply/demand through infrastructure and logistics networks
• Maps of the factors shaping the market today

We generate accurate production estimates and detect inflection points earlier than other market sources:

• Accuracy: We don’t just provide the signals or an index of the signals. We transform that data into meaningful information – actual production levels. 
• First Alert: Our data is as up-to-date as possible and you can access daily. We update the API every morning, rather than monthly like government sources.
• Unbiased and Data-Driven: Our product does not rely on anonymous human sources in any country.

Stay ahead of the curve with highly accurate, quick-to-market storage levels:

• Be First: We release our oil storage number two days ahead of the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA), giving you advance notice of storage levels. 
• Exclusive Intel: We are the only supplier of twice-weekly Cushing storage data. We are also the only data provider to detail whether tanks are operational, in maintenance, in construction, or hydrotesting.
• Accuracy: Our Cushing numbers are supported by the EIA's reports with strong correlation values.
• Confidence: We are an unbiased third party focused on delivering the highest quality energy data. Unlike survey-based storage reports, our data is independently collected and measured to deliver actual storage levels. Ten of the top ten hedge funds use our Cushing Crude Oil Storage Report to trade WTI.

Keep an eye on the Pipeline Crossroads of the World:

• Timeliness: Get real-time alerts and half-hourly flow updates by pipeline for quick assessment of market moving events. Be the first to react.
• Comprehensiveness: Analyze pipeline flow data connected to key storage hubs and refineries in the mid-continent. Use flow data as a proxy for production basins connected to the mid-continent, including Western Canada, Bakken, Permian Niobrara, SCOOP, and STACK.
• Predictability: Use our real-time flow data to front run Cushing crude inventory data from the EIA.
• Collaboration: Purchase this report with the Cushing Crude Oil Storage Report and receive the Cushing Balance Supplement Report, an analysis and discussion of pipeline flow dynamics pertaining to Cushing storage inventories.
• Intelligence: Receive ad hoc intelligence reporting on critical pipeline infrastructure progress, which could reveal potential delays.

Timely intelligence on refinery operations:

• Real-Time Alerts: Be the first to know about planned and unplanned outages, maintenance, and disruptions at monitored and unmonitored refineries. We combine observations from infrared cameras with in-house analytical and technological expertise to give you immediate alerts of critical events.
• Refinery Operations Summaries: Receive daily refinery intelligence, which includes the operational status of oil refinery units, planned and unplanned outage commentary, and utilization aggregates. Intraday updates and summaries are published via data API.
• Refinery Planned Outage Schedule: Get a forward-look into planned maintenance activities at both monitored and unmonitored refineries. Expected timelines are published at the unit level and updated as unit outages and restarts are observed.