On Monday, US oil to be delivered in May settled at -$37.60 per barrel, the first negative close in history. That means producers, which are running out of storage space as demand for energy collapses, are willing to pay buyers to take crude off their hands. That's never happened before for West Texas Intermediate futures, the US benchmark.The price of a barrel of WTI crude to be delivered in May has since turned positive. It settled Tuesday at $10.
Even in a $20 oil environment, 533 US oil exploration and production companies will file for bankruptcy by the end of 2021, according to Rystad Energy. The problem isn't going away. No one can say when demand for oil will recover. And even once the lockdowns end, it will take some time for refineries to get back up to speed, Tonhaugen said. Similar issues could arise when the June contract comes due in a month.
Why am I paying $2.20 a gallon dougducey ?
The lower the better ripped of by oil barons for to long
Wow
Turbulent times OilMarketCrash OilPriceWar
Why is the price per gallon at the pump so immediately reactive on the rise, but so slow to react when the barrel price bottoms out?
mmusJu Another Trump record. Winning
No bailout for the oil companies
Congrats to our Country as a beneficiary of Low Oil Prices TRUMP2020
That is better
FakeNews The 'negative close' and '$10' were 2 different futures contracts and the one expired this week.
It sure says a lot about what's going on right now that this is 'good' news.
God will intervene on behalf of the poor
Specify that it's WTI, not Brent.
Fuck, that's too much... Let OPEC starve
Countries producing oil think they control the world. That must be $1 a barrel.