Cushing is where WTI is delivered, so its level is the physical constraint behind the paper contract. As stocks approach tank bottoms, roughly twenty million barrels of unpumpable heel, the front spread stops behaving like the rest of the curve and flips to backwardation.
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This page shows the last 30 days. Cushing crude stocks has 1,172 readings in the warehouse, back to 9 Apr 2004. A plan opens the rest of it, with CSV export and the analyst.
U.S. Energy Information Administration
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-930 Hourly Electric Grid Monitor and the Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
Weekly ending stocks of crude oil at Cushing, Oklahoma, excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Cushing is the delivery point for the NYMEX West Texas Intermediate contract. Collected by EIA for the Weekly Petroleum Status Report, week ending Friday. History begins April 2004.
Informational research only. Nothing here is personalised investment advice.