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Gasoil Backwardation Strengthens on Refinery Outages

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Tighter supply concerns continue to drive a steeper ICE Gasoil curve backwardation with time spreads extending the rally this week due to refinery outages and with a fall in ARA inventories.

  • The prompt Gasoil time spread has risen from around +3.5$/mt at the of the week up to the highest since late March at 14$/mt today. Dec23-Dec24 is also at the highest since April having risen from a low of around 10$/mt at the start of June up to over 25$/mt today.
  • Supply concerns have been driven by outages at to a CDU and VDU at Shell’s Pernis refinery and to units at TotalEnergies Gonfreville refinery this week while Germany’s Vohburg refinery stopped heating oil deliveries to the wholesale market yesterday.
  • Wider market support comes from strong demand from India and a dip in Russian diesel exports while China diesel exports have fallen from a peak earlier this year.
  • European ARA Gasoil stocks yesterday dipped below the five year average for the first time since early Feb having fallen from a peak in mid May.
    • Gasoil JUL 23 up 1.7% at 724.25$/mt
    • Gasoil JUL 23-AUG 23 up 2.5$/mt at 13.5$/mt
    • Gasoil DEC 23-DEC 24 up 3$/mt at 25$/mt


Source: Bloomberg

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