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China Pulling Record Pace of Fuel Oil Imports Early December: Vortexa

OIL PRODUCTS

Preliminary Vortexa flows data suggests that China’s fuel oil imports, encompassing bunker fuel and refining feedstock, will surge to a new record of over 500kbd during the period of Dec 1-15.

  • Of note, only 200kb are enroute to Shandong despite the new 3mt fuel oil quota to be allowed to use as feedstock.
  • Teapots remain constrained by refining margins while factors like a lack of cheap Venezuelan crude due to relaxed sanctions hits feedstock supply.
  • Shandong teapot refiners experienced some improvement in refining margins in the latter half of November, thanks to cooling crude prices.
  • Refinery CDU utilisation rates among Shandong teapot refiners have remained range-bound between 55-57% since late October, exhibiting a nearly 10% y-o-y decline according to OilChem.


Source: Vortexa

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