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Ursa is monitoring oil storage around the world using SAR satellite data.

Watch this video tutorial to learn more about the different features you can access on our dashboard.

After a historic collapse, oil prices have been increasing, an impressive turnaround since being in free fall earlier this year.

A few weeks before hitting bottom, there were signs of fundamentals improving, providing a leading indicator for prices (keep reading).

Production cuts (OPEC, Russia, US shale), better-than-expected gasoline demand, and hopes for an economic recovery have helped lift oil prices.

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An unprecedented decline in oil demand has caused inventories to build sharply in 2020. The potential for storage to "run out" by this summer has been widely raised, sowing panic in the oil market.

Is this true? How full are global crude inventories? Do inventory levels vary depending on geography? Where are stocks highest? Have any locations hit a plateau?

These are some of the questions we covered in a recent webinar using Ursa inventory data. Click below to watch the video.

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The amount of oil held in storage at Cushing, Oklahoma led to one of the biggest stories in the world this week.

WTI oil futures traded Monday (April 20) in negative territory for the first time ever. You got paid to buy oil.

There are signs of economic life in China after months of paralysis.

A car factory in Tianjin. A freight railyard in Wuhan. Oil storage tanks across China.

The impact of China’s lockdown was highly visible in these places. Now, the signs are pointing in a different direction, suggesting efforts are underway to revive the world’s second-largest economy.

How much longer before the world’s crude inventory storage tanks fill to maximum capacity?

It’s become the dominant question in the oil market after the combination of a global economic paralysis and Saudi-Russia price war resulted in a staggering oversupply.

Talk of a potential deal among the world’s major oil producers to cut supply by historic proportions caused crude futures to skyrocket this week.

The development began Thursday with a tweet by President Trump raising expectations that OPEC and Russia could strike a deal that would lift oil prices after recording a 65% decline in the first quarter.