Mystery of the missing millions of barrels of oil | GulfNews.com:
"Oil-market watchers are struggling to reconcile the large estimated oversupply in the market with the much smaller build-up of reported inventories and narrowing contango in futures prices.
Some blame the barrel counters who compile official statistics on supply, demand and stocks. But the truth is that information on the world oil market is incomplete and it is easy for hundreds of millions of barrels of oil to disappear from the supply chain without being counted.
According to the three main statistical agencies, the global market has been oversupplied by between 1.5 million and 2.5 million barrels per day (bpd) since the start of the year. Stockpiles should have increased by between 200 million and 350 million barrels, according to the International Energy Agency, Opec and the US Energy Information Administration."
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