The US Energy Information Administration on Tuesday nearly tripled its forecast for the 2015 Brent-WTI spread to $7.35/b, largely due to a glut of US crude production. The 2015 spread, which EIA in February forecast would be $2.54/b, was widened due to “continuing large builds in US crude oil inventories, including at the Cushing, Oklahoma storage hub,” the agency said in its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook. US commercial crude oil inventories increased to a record 444 million barrels at the end of February, up 50 million barrels since the end of 2014, EIA said. US crude storage capacity is now 62% full, compared with 48% full at the same point a year ago, EIA said. “US commercial crude oil inventories, which are already at the highest level since 1930, are expected to continue growing over the next two months,” EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski said […]