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To: Meridian who wrote (72001)	8/30/2000 9:25:33 AM
From: BigBull	Respond to of 95453

Close to a 3 m bbl NET draw? Pretty amazing. ------------------------------------------------------------ Analyst Warns U.S. In Big Denial On Coming Oil Crisis Years of under investment in the oil service industry infrastructure, 20 years of oilpatch layoffs--and a strong dose of denial--have gotten the U.S. into a surprisingly tough situation. “We are not ones to talk in terms of extremes, but we now believe a serious energy crisis is looming….We believe the you-know-what is about to hit the fan.” So says Neal McAtee and the rest of the oil service team at Morgan Keegan & Co. In one of the most strongly worded reports we’ve yet seen in this bullish year of high oil and gas prices, soaring demand and inventory shortages, McAtee says the chickens are coming home to roost. His comments were prompted by data released by the American Petroleum Institute on August 22 that he calls “mindboggling.” API reported the latest drop in U.S. crude oil inventories means that supplies are now at a 24-year low. These numbers are lower than they were in 1976, a time when the U.S. imported far less crude than it does today, and when daily global consumption was 30% less than it is today. In other words, the crisis could be more severe than it was in the 1970s. “Simply put, just-in-time inventories of oil leave no room for error,” McAtee says. He lists the litany of causes of the potential crisis. Oil companies have generally been quick to cut spending and slow to increase it. Declining commodity prices over time have forced companies to drill only the easy prospects. There has been no significant new building of oil service assets for almost 20 years. With a few exceptions in 1990 and 1997, employment has fallen almost every year since 1982. “Current activity levels are not enough to alleviate the tight supply and demand picture. There is not enough iron or labor to reach the necessary activity levels. Prices of the commodity and of oil services will have to increase to attract the necessary capital to reach adequate activity levels.” Once reality hits, McAtee says, denial will end and oil prices will go higher. So will service stocks. In a separate report, Deutsche Banc Alex.Brown’s research group finds that U.S. production will not do much to correct the inventory shortfall this year. So far, through five months of 2000, data from the eight largest producing states (Texas, Alaska, California, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming and Kansas, which account for about 65% of total U.S. production), show that output fell 4% or 160,000 barrels per day, to just 3.9 million barrels per day. --Leslie Haines, editor, Oil and Gas Investor oilandgasinvestor.com

To: Meridian who wrote (72001)	8/30/2000 9:30:12 AM
From: Jon Cave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

re: DOE's You would think that Clinton would have given orders for the DOE to fudge on the numbers better than this. What if they are fudging<g>.

To: Meridian who wrote (72001)	8/30/2000 9:36:32 AM
From: BigBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

DOE's: eia.doe.gov Petroleum Stocks Percent Chg from (Million Barrels) 08/25/00 08/18/00 08/25/99 Prev Wk Yr Ago ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crude Oil (Excluding SPR) (8) .. 286.7 284.7 318.9 0.7 -10.1 Total Motor Gasoline ........... 196.4 201.2 201.4 -2.4 -2.5 Reformulated ................ 39.4 41.0 40.2 -3.9 -2.0 Oxygenated .................. 1.0 1.2 1.9 -16.7 -47.4 Other Finished .............. 113.7 115.9 118.6 -1.9 -4.1 Blending Components ......... 42.2 43.1 40.6 -2.1 3.9 Naphtha-Type Jet Fuel .......... 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Kerosene-Type Jet Fuel ......... 43.4 44.6 46.4 -2.7 -6.5 Distillate Fuel Oil ............ 112.4 112.4 140.3 0.0 -19.9 0.05% Sulfur and under ...... 68.2 69.6 69.1 -2.0 -1.3 Greater than 0.05% Sulfur ... 44.2 42.8 71.2 3.3 -37.9 Residual Fuel Oil .............. 35.0 33.8 40.0 3.6 -12.5 Unfinished Oils ................ 89.8 89.8 94.1 0.0 -4.6 Other Oils (9) ................. E194.7 E192.9 210.3 0.9 -7.4 Total Stocks (Excluding SPR) ... 958.5 959.4 1,051.5 -0.1 -8.8 Crude Oil in SPR (10)........... 571.1 570.9 575.1 0.0 -0.7 Total Stocks (Including SPR) ... 1,529.6 1,530.3 1,626.6 0.0 -6.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------