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Crude Time Spreads Holding Last Week Gains

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Crude time spreads are mostly holding positive on the day with optimism over Chinese demand and ongoing uncertainty over future Russian supplies providing support.

  • The front Brent Feb-Mar spread remains in contango but the remainder of the curve has returned into backwardation after seeing spreads until May 23 briefly in contango a week ago. The negative spread at the front reflects the current robust supplies with little change yet seen in Russian flows following sanctions and also boosted by a supply increase from Nigeria.
  • Brent Dec23-Dec24 is up from a low of 2$/bbl and Jun23-Dec23 up from 0.96$/bbl on 12 Dec.
    • Brent FEB 23-MAR 23 up 0.08$/bbl at -0.37$/bbl
    • Brent JUN 23-DEC 23 up 0.04$/bbl at 1.9$/bbl
    • Brent DEC 23-DEC 24 down -0.03$/bbl at 3.25$/bbl
    • WTI JAN 23-FEB 23 down -0.03$/bbl at -0.2$/bbl
    • WTI JUN 23-DEC 23 up 0.03$/bbl at 1.84$/bbl

Source: Bloomberg

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