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Gunvor Snaps Up North Sea Crude Offloaded by Others: Bloomberg

OIL

Gunvor, one of the biggest independent oil traders, is snapping up benchmark-defining cargoes of crude oil that other companies are offloading, according to Bloomberg.

  • This could imply that Gunvor is taking a bullish view to the market.
  • Gunvor has kept 17 of 18 North Sea crude cargoes that have been put into forward chains this month.
  • The total volume controlled by one single company is the highest since at least December 2019, when Bloomberg started compiling data. Each cargo is 0.7m bbl.
  • The North Sea paper market has since moved in contango, supporting chaining of cargoes.
  • The physical North Sea market is now oversupplied, even after a busier summer demand season starts.

Source: Bloomberg

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