Oil & Gas Transportation, Pipelines, and Storage

• Natural gas nominations delivered within minutes of being posted.
• More than 25 different attributes across 25,000+ pipeline locations throughout the US and Canada.
• View up to 48 observations for a given gas day and query historical nominations back to 2007
• Leverage critical intelligence on proprietary gas burn for power generation, index of customers, tariff rates, gas quality, EIA weekly storage, EIA monthly consumption, Everett LNG truck sendout, weather, and prices
• Create, execute, and save highly intricate data queries. Feed results directly into your own workflows or models.

Gain insights into:

• Proprietary gas burn for power generation
• Index of customers
• Tariff rates
• Everett LNG trunk sendout
• Gas quality

• Near-real time flows for 190+ pipelines in North America
• 900+ updates/day covering 48 cycles & 20,000 locations identified by 20+ attributes.
• 10+ years of historical scheduled, operational, available and design capacities.
• Examine near-real time activities and generate customised reports based on specific pipelines, regions and sectors.

• Gain valuable industry insights through our trend impact analysis
• 190+ pipelines with categorised data by date, severity, and market impact.
• Historical data going back more than a decade!

Access an exclusive view into the North American crude-by-rail market, a market which has evolved into a major component of overall North American crude transportation, especially when pipeline bottlenecks occur. We directly observe and track the number of trains and the cars per train to provide highly accurate daily crude volumes. We maintain high coverage percentages, ensuring you have an up-to-date understanding of activity in this market.

Our report includes fundamental rail loading and unloading volume data, real-time Bakken-outbound pipeline flows, market trend analysis and holistic supply chain insights for basins relying on crude-by-rail.

• Stand out from the competition with deep analysis of fundamental developments on rail loading and unloading volumes, key pipeline flows and transportation mode shifts.
• Understand how rail is being used as a flexible option for oil producers to sell their product at the highest possible rate. Get a look into infrastructure developments and market events.
• Receive weekly newsletters with expert commentary, up to date rail loadings and pipeline flows from Canada and the Bakken producing region, as well as crude-by-rail receipts along the coasts and the Mid-Continent.
• Receive information on loadings in key areas and receipt points, including North Dakota/Wyoming, the Permian Basin, Canada's Western Sedimentary Basin, US Gulf Coast, US East Coast, and US West Coast. 

The vast Forties oil network includes over 50 offshore oil fields, four pumping stations, refining, storage and 209kms of onshore pipeline. This region is rumored to have frequent technical challenges, production difficulties and last-minute cargo shipment delays or changes. We provide clarity into an opaque market with daily reporting, swift alerting and a snapshot of oil storage, pipeline flow, shipments and refinery activity.

We have an extensive in-the-field network of high-tech, proprietary monitors that provide real-time tracking and measurements of production levels, cargo shipments, outages and other key factors.

• Monitor the flow on the onshore Forties pipeline, the operations of the fractionation plant at Kinneil, the storage at Dalmeny and the Grangemouth refinery.
• Anticipate cargo deferrals or other disruptions and track all floating storage and fixtures.
• Half hourly alerts on flows to the on-shore portion of Forties pipeline and real-time operational status of the fractionation facility.
• Data for ships loading at Hound Point, discharges at Finnart and changes in storage at Dalmeny. We aggregate this information into a daily oil figure for a complete picture of oil available for export.

Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp account for a significant portion of Europe's total crude inflows. We provide gold-standard intelligence on crude and refined product storage levels.

We use the same trusted technologies and methodologies honed for our highly reliable and accurate Cushing Oil Storage Report to measure gasoline, gasoline components, naphtha, jet fuel, gasoil and crude oil storage levels tank-by-tank in the region. Empirical data is gathered from true observations and measurements, not estimates or survey data. We use a combination of highly calibrated infrared cameras, aerial diagnostics and other proprietary technologies to directly observe and report on storage levels.

• Using our cross-referenced approach of diagnostics from aerial surveys, infrared, and visual, we measure crude storage levels on a tank-by-tank basis for more than 200 tanks in the ARA region.
• Weekly measurement of middle distillate and jet fuel physical inventories at over 700 tanks in this region and provide aggregate storage levels indicating any noticeable trends.
• From our highly calibrated infrared cameras to our other impressive technologies, we measure gasoline, gasoline component and naphtha storage levels tank-by-tank for over 500 tanks in this region.
• We conduct weekly flyovers to take aerial imagery, allowing our analysts access to the most accurate storage levels and inventory changes in fixed- and floating-roof tanks.
• Receive ARA storage actuals, as well as updates on infrastructure expansion plans, construction progress, real-time news event alerts across refined products and alerts about tank product changes.

We are the only provider to deliver essential intelligence into crude oil inventories held in floating and fixed-roof tanks, as well as cavern storage in Western Canada.

With infrared cameras, aerial HDR photography and other proprietary measurement techniques, we provide a highly accurate insight into tank storage levels at Edmonton, Hardisty, Kerrobert and Alberta Heartland, as well as cavern storage at Hardisty. Where possible, we distinguish diluent storage levels from crude storage inventories.

• Our storage data is based on actual tank volumes down to the individual tank level. We deliver accurate data with the same proven technology and methodologies used for our industry-leading Cushing Crude Oil Storage report.
• Get access to oil storage by owner, purpose and grade using granular tank-by-tank and individual owner/operator data, along with extensive historical data.
• Access exclusive Canadian tank storage data that no government, agency or other provider reports on.
• We offer insight into the differentiation between crude and diluent storage by monitoring to help parse diluent-purposed product out of the crude storage inventories.

As the delivery point for the NYMEX Light Sweet Crude (WTI) contract, Cushing is the focal point of the most actively traded crude oil contract in the world.

We deliver exclusive insight into inventory, utilisation, and capacity changes at the tank, operator and location levels for floating and fixed-roof tanks. We measure oil storage levels using a combination of infrared cameras, aerial imagery and a patented measurement methodology honed by our analysts since 2009.

• We release our oil storage number two days ahead of the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA), giving you advance notice of storage levels.
• 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.
• Our Cushing numbers are supported by the EIA's reports with strong correlation values.
• 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.

Our report delivers a weekly snapshot of oil storage inventories held in above-ground tanks at the largest PADD 2 hub outside of Cushing, Oklahoma. With eyes on more than 19 million barrels of storage, we capture critical information on crude supply for Midwest refineries, including Bakken, Canadian, and Louisiana Light Sweet (LLS) crude streams.

• Get important information from the individual tank-level and owner-level on storage operationally tied to Midwest refineries, including BP Whiting, Exxon Joliet, Citgo Lemont, Husky Lima, Marathon Robinson, Marathon Catlettsburg and Phillips 66 Wood River. You also receive crude storage history as far back as 2010.
• See storage trends of Canadian crudes via the Keystone and Enbridge pipelines, Bakken via Energy Transfer Partner's Dakota Access and ETCOP pipelines, and LLS via the Capline pipeline. The Patoka storage hub also helps supply over 2.2mn bpd of Mid-continent refinery capacity.

Our Louisiana Gulf Coast Crude Report is the first of its kind in the market, connecting crude storage, inbound rail delivery, waterborne discharge and outbound pipeline flow data in a single source. The report's coverage of crude storage facilities focuses on key locations that help shape the Louisiana Gulf Coast supply chain, including the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) and St. James Hub.

• Observe crude movements for key storage locations:
  • Capline flows from St. James to Collierville, Tennessee, and from there to destinations at the Patoka, Illinois, storage hub and Valero’s Memphis refinery.
  • Rail deliveries at the Plains All American and NuStar St. James unloading terminals.
• Waterborne discharges at Louisiana ports.
• Storage data includes tank-level crude volumes, capacities, utilisation rates, and operational statuses on tank, owner, and location levels.
• Receive data down to the tank and owner levels at the LOOP and St. James trading hubs, the pricing points for multiple contracts, including Louisiana light sweet crude, LOOP sour storage and proposed LOOP sweet crude storage.
• Discover fundamental Louisiana Gulf Coast crude activity before other market participants, who wait an additional day for aggregate governmental estimates.

We provide tank-by-tank inventory and capacity data for floating and fixed-roof tanks as well as underground cavern storage, to give you a view of utilisation rates and inventory changes at the tank and operator level.

This unique insight allows traders and marketers to not only know how much changed in a given week, but also at which terminal and how the changes impacted utilisation.

We also publish exclusive intelligence reports on terminals, which focus on storage trend updates and analysis, including construction of physical infrastructure and notable changes in inventory levels.

• Gain an edge in the market by discovering storage movements a full day before EIA estimates are released.
• Access tank-by-tank data essential to forecasting the most significant port cities in PADD 3 including Houston, Beaumont and Corpus Christi.
• Our weekly storage and intelligence reports supply you with pertinent information involving activity at each storage location, as well as how it impacts, and is impacted by the market. You'll also receive historical Excel data sets to serve as an important reference tool.

Oil production in the Permian Basin is expected to rise to 4.7 million barrels per day by the end of 2019. The West Texas region located along the Plains Basin Pipeline is a critical juncture where Permian crude can be delivered to refineries along the Gulf Coast or to Cushing for storage. This is a key factor in understanding the developing supply chain and its market impacts.

Our unique weekly report provides inventory measurements down to the tank and operator level for the Midland, McCamey, Crane, Colorado City, Odessa, Wichita Falls and Wink terminals. The report also includes a detailed breakdown of capacity to paint a clear and comprehensive picture of the current levels at each hub.

• Get insight into PADD 3 supply fundamentals with specific, granular inventory measurements, in key production regions.
• Get regular intel on storage capacity and utilisation with periodic infrastructure intelligence reports in this expanding region.
• Understand the developing supply chain in the US Gulf Coast and where potential bottlenecks may occur.

The New York Harbor Product Storage report is the first of its kind and relies on the same highly calibrated infrared camera, aerial diagnostic and proprietary technologies we use to measure and deliver our industry standard Cushing Crude Oil Storage report.

Inventory values from this report align with the NYMEX RBOB and USLD futures contracts. Subscribers receive advanced access to data sets on over 600 tanks in the NYMEX RBOB and USLD contracts.

• We provide volumetric detail down to the tank level for a more specific, relevant, and complete data set a day before other reports. In contrast, the weekly EIA and API reports offer only an estimate of product storage aggregated by PADD.
• Develop your own view of the gasoline, ethanol, jet fuel and distillate markets a full day ahead of EIA data releases. Stay ahead of the competition and enhance your own trading and research strategies well in advance of the rest of the market.
• Compare inventories for 26 terminals and combine this report with our ARA Product Storage Reports to track distillate and gasoline stocks in each region to capture more arbitrage opportunities.