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Oil Inventories

Access the most accurate global oil inventories data, which covers 6 billion barrels of storage. This Use Case demonstrates how you can gain a competitive advantage in the energy markets by tracking daily crude oil inventory volumes stored in Floating Roof Tanks.

A Global Perspective Yields the Big Picture

While Cushing, Oklahoma, is well covered by the EIA, the world's most opaque markets are covered by Orbital Insight's objective, transparent, and timely crude oil inventory volumes across 26,000 Floating Roof Tanks. Get the latest oil inventories data.

Audiences

Hedge Funds, Energy Companies, Midstream Logistics, Sell-side Banks, Analyst Agencies, Governments

Benefits

Competitive Advantage, Advance Intelligence, Market Transparency, Objective Data

"How do I understand trends in oil inventories ahead of my competition?"

"How can I track builds and draws in certain regions like OPEC and China?"

Gain the Informational Edge

While the world is focused on the most transparent regions of global oil storage, Orbital Insight uses satellite imagery to estimate the contents of above-ground storage tanks.

A Floating Roof Tank uses an airtight lid that rises and falls based on its crude oil storage. Orbital Insight's patented computer vision algorithms measure the shadows from these tanks and calculate storage at over 26,000 of these facilities and translate them into volume numbers.

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View Oil Supply Levels

While the Energy Information Administration (EIA) provides transparency into U.S. oil storage, the storage trends in across China and OPEC countries remain relatively opaque.

Orbital Insight's Floating Roof Tank monitoring leverages over 200 satellites, both optical imagery and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), to get daily imagery at key locations. While the majority of global oil traders get visibility into 20% of the market, satellite imagery analysis provides daily transparency into 80% of the global market.

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Benefits

Competitive Advantage

Access objective, timely, and accurate data covering 80% of the global oil markets versus those reliant on incomplete information.

Advance Intelligence

Gain a time advantage versus the competition with daily observations, leading reporting agencies such as the IEA by six weeks.

Market Transparency

Understand trends in the most opaque storage regions on Earth — whether it's Chinese stockpiling or the aftershock of geopolitical events.

Objective Data

A single empirical methodology applied across 6 billion barrels of oil storage capacity, accessible on a daily basis.

Market Transparency

Understand trends in the most opaque storage regions on Earth — whether it's Chinese stockpiling or the aftershock of geopolitical events.

Objective Data

A single empirical methodology applied across 6 billion barrels of oil storage capacity, accessible on a daily basis.

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“Orbital Insight is now providing a timely and reliable estimate of global oil inventories – including those outside the U.S. which account for 80% of world oil stocks. That’s critical data, hitherto unavailable, which is essential to anyone trying to understand the oil market.”

Andy Hall, Founder of Astenbeck Capital

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Oil Inventories

Access the most accurate global oil inventories data, which covers 6 billion barrels of storage. This Use Case demonstrates how you can gain a competitive advantage in the energy markets by tracking daily crude oil inventory volumes stored in Floating Roof Tanks.