September 18, 2024 18:14 GMT
OIL PRODUCTS: Oil Products End of Day Summary: Cracks Supported
OIL PRODUCTS
Gasoline cracks are seeing some support with demand holding near normal and stocks building below expectations, according to today’s EIA data.
- US gasoline crack up 0.8$/bbl at 13.41$/bbl
- US ULSD crack up 0.4$/bbl at 19.32$/bbl
- EIA Weekly US Petroleum Summary - w/w change week ending Sep 13: Gasoline stocks +69 vs Exp +1,140, Implied mogas demand +298, Distillate stocks +125 vs Exp +994, Implied dist demand +240.
- EIA data showed US jet fuel stocks fell by 542k bbl last week, easing back from last week’s 14-year high.
- Shell’s Pernis refinery in Rotterdam has announced it will start maintenance on seven of more than sixty plants on the site from the last week of September.
- Motor Oil’s Theodoroi refinery is running at reduced capacity after Tuesday’s fire the company said via a public release.
- Petronor’s Bilboa refinery reported the start-up of its G3 Diesel Desulfurization Unit (Plant 1) on Tuesday.
- Russia's primary oil refining capacity is expected to rise in the second half of September as refineries wind up maintenance.
- Retail gasoline prices in Russia rose 0.22% in the week Sep. 16, Rosstat said, cited by Bloomberg.
- The 160k b/d PBF Torrance refinery in California reported an equipment breakdown in a filing on Tuesday.
- Port of Fujairah total oil product inventories fell to 18.267m bbl as of Sept. 16.
- China’s gasoline exports slipped to 770k mt in August - the lowest since April according to GACC data.
- Global implied jet fuel demand is seen down 0.4% in the week commencing Sep. 17 to 6.8m b/d.
- according to BNEF.
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