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OIL PRODUCTS: Mid-Day Oil Products Summary: Cracks Under Pressure

OIL PRODUCTS

Diesel and Gasoline cracks remain under pressure, with gasoline the lowest since November and diesel just above the lows from last week amid healthy supply and muted demand.

  • US gasoline crack down 0$/bbl at 12.44$/bbl
  • US ULSD crack down 0$/bbl at 21.41$/bbl
  • API weekly oil stock data from late yesterday according to Bloomberg: Gasoline -1.86mbbl, Distillate -1.41mbbl
  • Valero’s 170kb/d Benicia refinery in PADD 5 halted equipment on Aug. 27 morning after a flaring event.
  • TotalEnergies 109kbd  Feyzin refinery had a fire on Monday on equipment related to the reformer according to Le Progres reporting.
  • The Czech government has approved lending Orlen 135,000 cubic metres of refined fuels because of the outage at Litvinov due to an unexploded WW2 bomb.
  • Port of Fujairah oil product inventories edged 0.4% lower w/w to 17.803 mn bbls according to FOIZ data published Aug. 28. Stockpiles have increased 2.7% since the end of 2023.
  • Refiners in China are forecast to cut oil product exports by 20% m/m to 2.59m tons in September, according to Mysteel OilChem cited by Bloomberg.

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