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Commodities and finance: An unsteady relationship September 21, 2010 Jorge Montepeque Global Director Market Reports Platts
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Commodities and finance:An unsteady relationship
September 21, 2010
Jorge MontepequeGlobal Director Market ReportsPlatts
Agenda
• Fundamental drivers in commodity markets• Examples of market fundamentals at work• Major trends in oil markets• Energy markets are shifting outside of OECD• US energy markets start to lose prominence• Russian exports to the East: ESPO• Commodity price discovery is moving East• Agriculturals, metals and energy react to same drivers• Impact of Chinese market on world commodities
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Asian market size attracts attention
• Russia undertakes massive development project to reset oil flows in its vast territory and export ESPO to Asian markets
• Russia targeted initial flow of 300,000 b/d out of the port of Kozmino for early 2010 rising to 600,000 b/d by end of year
• Saudi Arabia exits St Eustatius storage facility that feeds US markets
• Saudi Arabia obtains storage facility in Japan to feed Asian markets
• Iraqis and Iranians target Asian markets• Brazil acquires storage facility in Japan• Continuous expansion in Korea tankage facilities
Key issues alter world economics and oil flows
• The world is in the process of resetting, with economic vigortransferred to the East and away from ‘old’ economies
• China’s growth continues at a rapid pace and set to achieve economic lifestyles similar to other Asian standards
• China has become the largest waterborne crude oil importing market in the East and will become the largest globally in the next fewyears. China is already the largest metals importer.
• High oil prices foster growth in domestic consumption in Middle East with producers gnawing away at their own supplies due to non-market internal pricing and end-user subsidies
• Western economies still coping with credit crunch aftermath, quantitative easing sparks fears of inflation and weakens currencies
• Budgets are dry with borrowing less likely due to soaring external debt
ESPO Pipeline Project
ESPO - key facts and figures
• First ESPO cargo loaded December 27-29, 2009• January exports – 218,000 b/d• February exports – 268,000 b/d • March exports – 302,000 b/d• April exports – 325,000 b/d• May exports – 327,000 b/d• June exports – 338,000 b/d• July exports – 327,000 b/d
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