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European Gasoline Pricing Encourages East of Suez Flows: Sparta

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European gasoline pricing could still prompt shipments to the East of Suez, while the arb to the US is shut according to a note from Sparta yesterday.

  • ARA Ebob gasoline is “increasingly pricing itself into a variety of global arb locations,” said analyst Neil Crosby. “A boon to ARA is the strength of the Singapore market, which continued to rally this week.”
  • The arb from Europe has been made more workable due to refinery maintenance in the Middle East. European components have “room to strengthen further” relative to Middle East prices.
  • The surge in TC2 transatlantic tanker rates has helped close the arb to NYH from ARA. “Spiking TC2 rates have helped to maintain very shut econs out of ARA into NYH.”


Source: Bloomberg

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