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Near Term Gasoil Spreads Stay Strong on French Disruption

DIESEL

Near term European diesel spreads are holding onto gains from last week with concerns for tighter supplies amid ongoing disruption at French refineries.

  • Refined products shipments from TotalEnergies’ sites on Monday were blocked for the 13th day of strike action and some refineries were operating at reduced output. INEOS’ Lavera refinery and Exxon’s Port Jerome site were also scheduled to face disruption due to industrial action on Monday.
  • The prompt Gasoil spread is steady around 30$/mt today compared to 17.75$/mt a week ago.
  • Easing supply risks and robust Russian supplies are weighing on longer dated time spreads with Jun23-Dec23 near the lower end of the range from this year and Dec23-Dec24 is just above the lowest since Jan 2022 seen last week.
  • Europe has so far been successful in finding new sources of diesel supply from the Middle East and Asia to offset the missing Russian supplies due to sanctions implemented on 5 Feb.
    • Gasoil APR 23 down -2.5% at 756$/mt
    • Gasoil APR 23-MAY 23 down -1.5$/mt at 30.25$/mt
    • Gasoil MAY 23-JUN 23 down -1$/mt at 18.5$/mt
    • Gasoil JUN 23-DEC 23 down -2.75$/mt at 20.5$/mt
    • Gasoil DEC 23-DEC 24 down -2$/mt at 19.25$/mt

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