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Oil End of Day Summary: Crude Rises

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Oil markets are headed for US close trading higher, driven by expectations that OPEC+ will rollover voluntary cuts and keep a lid on supply.

  • Brent JUL 24 up 1.2% at 84.13$/bbl
  • Barak Ravid at Axios reporting that Israel has submitted to Qatar, Egypt, and the US, "an official, written, and updated proposal regarding the Gaza hostage deal."
  • Saudi Aramco may cut prices for most of its crude it sells to Asia in July – the first in 5-months according to Reuters sources.
  • Mexico’s Pemex exported 681,000 bpd of crude in April – 31% lower y/y.
  • Crude throughput at China’s refineries is unlikely to see a strong recovery in May after hitting a four-month low in April, according to Platts.
  • Libya has revised down its planned crude exports for May to 1.1m b/d.
  • Russia’s seaborne crude exports have slipped back ahead of the latest OPEC+ meeting as the group wrestles with Russia’s confusing commitments to the group since the Ukraine invasion.
  • India’s Reliance signed a one-year deal with Rosneft for at least 3m bbl/month of Urals crude to be paid in roubles.
  • Nigeria plans to export 92k b/d of Amenam crude in July, near steady on the 95k b/d of exports for June, according to a loading programme seen by Bloomberg.
  • Iraq’s federal oil ministry called International Oil Companies working in Kurdistan for a meeting in Baghdad to discuss resuming oil exports via Ceyhan.
  • Daily shipping slots via the Panama Canal are slowly improving as water levels rise in the connected Gatun reservoir, shipping sources told OPIS.
  • Plains Pipeline is raising oil shipping rates from the company’s Ten Mile Station in Alabama to Chevron’s 330k b/d Pascagoula refinery in Mississippi, Bloomberg reported.
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Oil markets are headed for US close trading higher, driven by expectations that OPEC+ will rollover voluntary cuts and keep a lid on supply.

  • Brent JUL 24 up 1.2% at 84.13$/bbl
  • Barak Ravid at Axios reporting that Israel has submitted to Qatar, Egypt, and the US, "an official, written, and updated proposal regarding the Gaza hostage deal."
  • Saudi Aramco may cut prices for most of its crude it sells to Asia in July – the first in 5-months according to Reuters sources.
  • Mexico’s Pemex exported 681,000 bpd of crude in April – 31% lower y/y.
  • Crude throughput at China’s refineries is unlikely to see a strong recovery in May after hitting a four-month low in April, according to Platts.
  • Libya has revised down its planned crude exports for May to 1.1m b/d.
  • Russia’s seaborne crude exports have slipped back ahead of the latest OPEC+ meeting as the group wrestles with Russia’s confusing commitments to the group since the Ukraine invasion.
  • India’s Reliance signed a one-year deal with Rosneft for at least 3m bbl/month of Urals crude to be paid in roubles.
  • Nigeria plans to export 92k b/d of Amenam crude in July, near steady on the 95k b/d of exports for June, according to a loading programme seen by Bloomberg.
  • Iraq’s federal oil ministry called International Oil Companies working in Kurdistan for a meeting in Baghdad to discuss resuming oil exports via Ceyhan.
  • Daily shipping slots via the Panama Canal are slowly improving as water levels rise in the connected Gatun reservoir, shipping sources told OPIS.
  • Plains Pipeline is raising oil shipping rates from the company’s Ten Mile Station in Alabama to Chevron’s 330k b/d Pascagoula refinery in Mississippi, Bloomberg reported.