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Product Cracks Balance Tight Supplies with Weak Demand

OIL PRODUCTS

Gasoline crack spreads edge higher while diesel cracks extends the recent trend lower.

  • Concern for tight supplies with the upcoming EU ban on seaborne fuels and high refinery outages is providing some support. For over a week the market focus has been on the short term weak demand driving spreads lower. Optimism for improving global economic demand growth later this year is not helping to support the near term spreads.
  • Total US inventories remain well below normal despite a build in both gasoline and diesel stocks in weekly EIA data released yesterday. Product supplies in the New York Harbour area are especially tight after another stock draw this week due to low production and missing European supplies.
    • US 321 crack up 0.4$/bbl at 34.05$/bbl
    • US gasoline crack up 1$/bbl at 27.47$/bbl
    • US ULSD crack down -0.7$/bbl at 47.21$/bbl
    • EU Gasoline-Brent up 0.6$/bbl at 14.18$/bbl
    • EU Gasoil-Brent down -0.1$/bbl at 28.41$/bbl


Source: MNI / EIA

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