Global Oil Markets and Hedging Are Trends Your Friend?
EnerCom March 2016 – Fredrik Sagen Andersen
Non-OPEC to painfully balance the oil market by moving from record growth in 2014 to production declines in 2016
OPEC (Saudi) Will Not Protect Price In Supply Driven Downturn
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Global oil demand Non-OPEC Supply incl. proc.gains & biofuelsSource: IEA
Supply driven downturn
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Changes In The Supply-Demand Balance Are Happening - The price is doing its magic. If demand keeps on growing more than non-OPEC supply we need more and more from OPEC
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The Long End of the Forward Curve Has Fallen Too Much
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Source: Reuters, DNB Markets
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The Headline Oversupply Not Visible In Time Spreads - The graph below suggest that the last drop in oil prices is sentiment driven and not fundamentally driven
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Short Sellers Have Been In Command the Last Year
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Reported Supply vs Demand Reported OECD stock changeSource: IEA
Growing Problem With The Data Quality Recently
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OECD Stocks Are High And Rising
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3 million b/d swing:
No Doubt That It Is The Supply Side That Is More Important - OPECs market share policy is leading to a swing of 3 million b/d of non-OPEC supply growth from 2014 to 2016
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Canadian Producers Are Under Water – For How Long? - How long can Canadian producers accept to lose money on their current output
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2 mbd Of Oil Production Is Cash Negative At Brent Below 40 $/b - With Brent prices at 30 $/b, 5.3 million b/d of world oil production is cash negative
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No Growth In Non-OPEC Anymore - Despite continued growth in Russia
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Shale Production Has Started To Drop - And with the current rig count production is set to drop by more than 1 million b/d by the end of 2016??
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Enormous Cuts In Global Oil Spending Will Continue in 2016 - This sets the stage for lower production/lower production growth in the future
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Source: DNB Markets, Rystad Energy
How Will The Huge CAPEX-cuts Affect Decline Rates?
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Net Oil Need Of 12 Million b/d Before 2020?(Assuming 3% net decline rate and oil demand growth of 1 mbd p.a)
Global output of crude, condensate and NGLsObserved decline rateOil demand growing 1 mbd per yearDecline rate 3%
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Distillate Has Been Weak, But Gasoline Strong - Gasoline is still performing in US, China and India
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Source: US Federal Highway Administration - Traffic volumes collected from 4000 roadside monitoring stations across the US, published with a two-month delay
Driving Distance On The Rise As Gasoline Prices Drop - Lower oil prices are incentivizing more driving
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How to Explain Chinese Gasoline Demand - With Chinese SUV sales up 58% in 2015 it is maybe not that strange that gasoline demand is performing strongly
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The 2016 Oil Price Score Card
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2016 Oil Price Scorecard Comments Oil Price Weight
Overall Outlook
The market still looks over supplied in 2016 but the call on OPEC is increasing by 1.6 million b/d according to IEA. The upside is capped by falling production costs, large US spare capacity in the form of available oil rigs/drilled uncompleted wells and OPECs market share strategy. But OPEC spare capacity is very low and non-OPEC supply growth will fade soon while geopolitical risk is high and rising.
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Fundamentals
Global Fundamental BalanceThe global supply-demand balance is still looking over supplied for 2016, but much less over supplied than in 2015 as the call on OPEC is increasing by 1.6 million b/d in the latest IEA forecast. The problem is however that OPEC looks to produce more than the call.
BEARISH HIGH
Crude vs Product Balance (Margins)Refinery margins will probably be weaker in 2016 than in 2015 as particularly the Middle East is bringing on new capacity and as oil demand growth will be weaker in 2016 than in 2015. For the first and last quarter of 2016 the weak diesel market may lead to refinery run cuts, but we believe margins will be strong during the gasoline season.
BEARISH LOW
OECD Stock levels Stock levels are record high, but we do not believe the market will run out of storage capacity BEARISH MEDIUM
OPEC Spare CapacityCore OPEC spare capacity is low at only 2.3% of global oil demand according to IEA data. In reality the spare capacity is probably even lower since Saudi is probably producing close to capacity.
BULLISH HIGH
US Oil Statistics - Fundamentals US oil production growth which was 1.6 million b/d in 2014 and about 0.8 million b/d in 2015 is forecast to drop to negative in 2016 and US crude stocks will draw down in 2016. BULLISH HIGH
Global Demand GrowthGlobal oil demand growth is positively affected by the lower prices in 2015 but this effect is seen to fade in 2016. We have factored in weaker global demand growth for 2016, but the higher starting point of OECD oil demand next year means year on year growth will still be decent for OECD also in 2016.
NEUTRAL MEDIUM
OPEC SupplyOPEC (Saudi) is seen to contiunue its policy of targeting market share instead of price. And we estimate that Iran will increase its output from the current 2.9 million b/d to about 3.6 million b/d by the summer, starting the ramp up in Q1-2016.
BEARISH HIGH
Non-OPEC Supply Total non-OPEC supply growth is seen negative in 2016, down from a record growth of 2.2 million b/d in 2014 and 1.2 million b/d in 2015. BULLISH MEDIUM
Political Risk
Venezuela, Iraq, Iran, Saudi, Nigeria, Russia, Israel, MENA, Brazil, etc
Political risk is on the rise. Key risk is from countries like Venezuela, Iraq, Libya, Brazil. The Iran deal will probably bring meaningfully more OPEC barrels to the market, but generally the sunni-shiite conflict and IS has increased the total risk in the Middle East and weak economic conditions in countries like Venezuela and Brazil is threatening the social stability. There is a non-negligible risk related to conflict/power struggle inside the Saudi Royal family and the escalating tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia after Saudi executed an important Shia cleric.
BULLISH HIGH
Other Factors
Financial Money Flow
Total financial net oil length is significantly down since the peak. There is hence room room for a rebuild of positions if the sentiment should change. Triggers could be geopolitics, a strong gasoline season, accellerating decline rates, write downs of resources from shale oil companies, etc. A stronger USD has provided headwinds for the oil price since 2014, but this effect is probaly fading for 2016 as we do not believe in a further strengthening of the USD for the coming year.
BULLISH LOW
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Long Term Oil Price Forecast – Current (The forecast is for the average of the rolling 1st month ICE Brent future contract)
Historical HistoricalNominal $/b Real (2015) $/b
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Price target ForecastNominal $/b Real (2015) $/b
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12 months 6524 months 702019-2023 60-80
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100 Dollar Crude Was Appealing
• Companies had good hedges in place
• Mix of different strategies and products – swaps, collars, 3-ways etc.
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Hedge Ratios Dropped With Falling Prices
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• Those same companies sharply reduced their hedged volume
• Hedge ratios lowest when hedges were needed the most?
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• Snapshot of willingness to provide supply and demand of forward prices
• Long term prices should reflect the cost of marginal barrel - They do incentivise investment (cuts) in future oil
• Since November 2014 the forward curve has predicted a brighter future
The Forward Curve Doesn’t Predict the Future
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And It’s Hard to Forecast - Price expectations for 2018 now lower than outlook for 2016 was in September
Source: Thomson Reuters Oil Poll
• Jan. 2013: analysts expected 2016 price 99.7 (avg Bloomberg survey)
• The crowd that is the market exaggerates trends – overshooting
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Opportunistic vs Apocalyptic Hedging
• Should not be about picking the tops and bottoms
• Markets are not rational, cash flow must be protected
• Consider risks of hedge losses in high price scenarios vs risk of bankruptcy in a weak market
• Cost of hedging rises considerably when it’s most crucial - 40 put for 2018 is 5.5 USD/bbl now - 40 put for 2016 was 10 cents/bbl two years ago
• Firm strategy – flexible execution
Normal hedge ratio
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Hedging ratios50-70%30-50%0-40%0-30%
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• Trends typically overshoot in commodities – prepare to outlast them
• Hedges aren’t supposed to always be profitable
• Maintain financial flexibility through smoothing out revenue - Maintain capacity when times are tough - Avoid firesales - More time to adjust strategy, reorganise, negotiate with creditors - Solid hedging policy can reduce finance costs and increase debt capacity - Stability in financial ratios, rating and financing costs
Summary