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EIA: US crude stocks rise as fuel is drawn down due to refinery maintenance.

Data from the Energy Information Administration on Wednesday showed that U.S. crude stockpiles increased more than expected, whereas gasoline and distillate inventory fell, as product exports grew amid refinery spring repairs. The EIA reported that crude inventories increased by 3.6 millions barrels, to 433.8 million in the week ending February 28. This was compared to analysts' expectations based on a poll of 341,000 barrels. Refinery crude runs dropped by 346,000 barrels a day (bpd), and utilization rates fell 0.6 percentage points to 85.9%. Due to seasonal maintenance, rates have been hovering around 85% ever since mid-January. Refinery utilization rates on...

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EIA reports that US oil production fell in November after reaching a record high in October

The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported in its Petroleum Supply Monthly Report on Friday that U.S. crude production dropped by 122,000 barrels a day in November, to 13,314 million barrels a day, from a record monthly high of 13,436 million barrels bpd set in October. The data revealed that the EIA's measure of demand for crude oil and petroleum fell by 775, 000 bpd, to 20,235 million bpd, in November. This was the lowest level since April 2024. This compares to a record monthly supply of crude oil, and petroleum of 21.666 millions bpd reached in August 2005. The product...

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US petroleum stocks omitting SPR fall to 2-year low, EIA states

U.S. petroleum stocks omitting the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) fell last week to their lowest because April 2022 as exports rose and imports fell, the Energy Details Administration (EIA) stated on Wednesday. Crude inventories fell by 2 million barrels to 412.7 million barrels in the week ending Jan. 10, the EIA stated, compared to experts' expectations in a Reuters survey for a 992,000-barrel draw. Net U.S. crude imports fell by 1.3 million barrels daily (bpd), EIA said, to 2.05 million bpd. And weekly crude exports were up 1 million bpd to 4.08 million bpd. The petroleum draw was mostly on...

Oil & Gas Refining

Top 3 United States refiners return $5.2 billion to investors in Q3 in spite of profit slide

Top U.S. refiners kept concentrated on investor returns with significant stock buybacks and dividends in the third quarter despite the fact that earnings fell due to damaging fuel need and refining margins. Margins for fuel, diesel and other products narrowed greatly from record levels struck after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Fuel demand has actually softened ever since, and new refining capacity has come online. In the 3rd quarter, the average earnings per share for U.S. oil refiners fell to 25 cents from $4.75 in the same quarter a year earlier and $4.85 in 2022, according to Reuters estimations. Integrated,...

Crude Oil

Alberta files federal court obstacle to Canada carbon tax exemption

Canada's main oilproducing province Alberta has submitted a federal court difficulty to Ottawa's carbon tax exemption for home heating oil, arguing it is unconstitutional and illegal, the Alberta federal government stated on Tuesday. WHY IT MATTERS The court difficulty from Alberta's conservative government, which regularly clashes with the federal Liberals on environment and energy concerns, is the current attack on the consumer carbon tax ahead of a federal election due to happen within the next year. Opposition Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, whose party is ballot far ahead of Trudeau's Liberals, has actually promised to axe. the tax if elected. CONTEXT...

Jet Fuel

Asia's regrade spread strikes 6-year high up on stronger jet fuel principles

Asia's frontmonth regrade spread, the difference in between jet fuel and gasoil swaps, leapt to a sixyear high, prices data from LSEG showed on Monday, with traders associating the relocate to strength in timely market fundamentals for jet fuel. The spread has been expanding for the past four-trading session to strike $2.50 a barrel - its largest given that Nov. 26, 2018, when levels were around $2.55 a barrel, the information revealed. Jet fuel markets have been rallying considering that a week earlier, as increased purchasing interest - with regional buyers seeking to cover their immediate November requirements - stimulated...

Environment

EIA anticipates winter season home-heating expenses to average similar to in 2015

Many U.S. homes will invest about the same as in 2015 to heat homes over the winter regardless of colder temperature levels that will increase overall fuel consumption, the U.S. Energy Details Administration (EIA). stated on Tuesday. With energy rates comparable to or slightly lower than last. winter season, EIA expects costs for lots of households will have to do with. the same as last winter, the company kept in mind in the 2024 Winter season. Fuels Outlook report. Residences using heating oil will see the sharpest decline in. fuel costs over the winter at 5%, whereas typical propane fuel....

Oil & Gas

United States oil need grew to highest seasonal level given that 2019 in July, EIA data shows

U.S. oil demand increased in July to the highest seasonal level because 2019 while output decreased for the second time in three months, information from the U.S. Energy Information Administration revealed on Monday. U.S. oil need has actually been more durable this year compared to other significant customers, such as China, which have actually lagged under financial pressures. Overall oil usage rose 1.2% from June to 20.48 million barrels each day (bpd) in July, the highest for that month because 2019. Demand for both gas and ultra-low sulfur diesel was at the highest seasonal levels given that 2019, whereas jet...

Fossil Fuels

US crude stockpiles fall, fuel and distillates construct, EIA states

U.S. crude oil stockpiles fell while gasoline and distillate inventories rose last week, the Energy Details Administration (EIA) said on Wednesday. Crude stocks fell by 1.6 million barrels to 417.5 million barrels in the week ending Sept. 13, the EIA said, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a. 500,000-barrel draw. Net U.S. crude imports fell by 1.8 million. barrels daily, the EIA said. Unrefined stocks at the Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery hub. fell by 2 million barrels, the EIA said. Oil futures pared losses following the report. Brent futures. were trading at $73.53 a barrel, down 19 cents...

Energy Markets

California aims to tackle pump spikes by requiring gas reserves

California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed a plan on Thursday requiring oil refiners to keep minimum reserves of gasoline in an effort to prevent rate spikes. The California Energy Commission said that on 63 days last year California refiners preserved less than 15 days of supply of gasoline, a situation that it stated spiked rates and expense motorists $650 million. Cost spikes at the pump are earnings spikes for Big Oil. Refiners should be needed to plan ahead and backfill products to keep prices steady, instead of playing games to earn even more revenues, Newsom, a Democrat, said in a release....

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US refiners scale back unrefined consumption as fuel stocks swell: Kemp

U.S. petroleum refiners have trimmed crude processing rates in reaction to an increase in fuel inventories and a decline in refining margins because the start of the second quarter of 2024. Refiners' gross inputs of crude and incomplete oils slowed to 16.6 million barrels daily (b/d) over the 7 days ending on Aug. 2, according to data from the U.S. Energy Details Administration. Gross inputs were the slowest for the time of year given that the initially wave of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and before that 2014. Refiners made use of simply 90.5% of their operable capacity, below 93.6%...

Crude Oil

United States refining margins plunge as fuel stocks climb: Kemp

U.S. oil refineries have been processing petroleum at the fastest rate for the time of year given that before the pandemic, however rising fuel stocks have begun to weigh on crack spreads and likely signal a slowdown ahead. Refineries processed 17.5 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude and other feedstocks over the week ending on June 7, the fastest seasonal rate since 2018, according to information from the U.S. Energy Details Administration (EIA). Refineries were using 95% of their operable capability, up 94% in 2015, and the highest percentage considering that 2019, weekly data from the EIA show. However...

Europe

Natural Gas Utilities

Shell restarts production of Penguins oil in UK North Sea

Shell announced on Tuesday that it had restarted the production of the Penguins oilfield in the UK North Sea with a floating, production storage and offloading facility (FPSO). Shell announced that the field will switch to a new FPSO, which reduces emissions by 30 percent and can extend the life of the field by 20 years. Shell's integrated Gas and Upstream Director, Zoe Yujnovich said, "The UK is dependent on imports for much of its oil and gas demand." The Penguins field provides the domestic energy that people require today. And the FPSO shows our commitment to competitive projects which...

Oil Refineries

US diesel exports to ARA set to rise on limited European supply, firm US production

Diesel deliveries from the U.S. Gulf Coast to Europe's primary trading and refining hub, the AmsterdamRotterdamAntwerp (ARA) area, are set to increase owing to enhancing export margins on the back of scarce supply in Europe and increasing U.S. refinery production, according to traders and ship tracking data. Europe is looking for greater transatlantic diesel imports, as weaker export margins for deliveries from east of Suez slowed circulations on that path in the last 2 months. Rising European gasoil demand likewise triggered greater transatlantic imports. Separately held gasoil stocks in ARA fell for the 3rd successive week on Thursday to 2.13...

Crude Oil

Russia's diesel, fuel output capacity to fall greatly in Sept, data programs

Russia's capability to produce diesel and fuel is anticipated to fall greatly in September as seasonal upkeep at oil refineries peaks, Reuters computations based upon market sources' data revealed on Wednesday. According to the data, idle gasoline production capability is set to increase by 71% this month from August to 30,900 metric heaps daily (around 264,195 barrels daily), while offline diesel production capability is expected to leap by 88% from last month to 45,400 lots daily (around 337,776 barrels each day). That represents 21% of Russia's total gas production capacity, up from 11% in August, and 15% for diesel output...

East Asia

North Asia

Energy Markets

Russian seaborne diesel exports fell in March, data shows

LSEG data and market sources showed that the decline in Russian seaborne diesel and gasoline exports was due to unplanned maintenance at local refineries. In January and February, drone attacks targeted Russian refineries owned and operated by Rosneft in Ryazan, Syzran, and Saratov as well as Lukoil Volgograd. The traders said that the fall in oil processing in March was due to the resultant decline in processing. Calculations based on LSEG data and other market sources showed that the total diesel and gasoil exported from Russian ports dropped to 3.8 million metric tonnes, a 5% drop from February. According to...

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Lukoil expects to restart damaged NORSI oil refinery units in June, sources state

Russian secondlargest oil manufacturer Lukoil prepares to resume operations at its harmed CDU6 main unit and catalytic cracker at the NORSI oil refinery in June following maintenance, 3 market sources stated on Friday. Lukoil did not right away respond to a request for comment. Among the sources stated that the CDU-6 main unit, where operations were halted in March following a fire, could be tentatively back up as early as Saturday. The resumption will enable the catalytic cracker, which has been idled for maintenance given that January, to get feedstocks. It could return to operations on June 10, another source...

Refined Products

Russia's Volgograd oil refinery has rebooted main system struck by drone, sources say

Russia's Lukoil last week restarted an essential production unit at its Volgograd refinery, the biggest in southern Russia, which was shut earlier this month after being harmed in a drone attack, 2 market sources informed on Monday. The plant, with production capability of some 300,000 barrels per day (bpd), ignited on May 12 following a drone strike, local authorities stated. Sources stated the CDU-1 unit had been damaged in the attack. Lukoil did not right away reply to a request for comment. Ukraine does not formally confirm or reject attacks on oil refineries inside Russia, but it states the centers...

Fossil Fuels

Weak Asia refining margins see swing to crude from the Americas: Russell

The earnings from turning a barrel of crude oil into fuels in Asia is at the most affordable in 7 months, which is leading refiners to turn away from expensive Middle East grades and seek less expensive alternatives from the Americas. Refiners are being hit by the double whammy of greater rates from Saudi Arabia, the leading exporter and price-setter for much of the unrefined exported from Middle East, as well as soft need for some refined products, including commercial and transportation pillar diesel. The crack spread, or earnings margin, from making fuels from a. barrel of Middle East benchmark...

Crude Oil

Russia's Novak eliminate diesel export ban

Russian Deputy Minister Alexander Novak stated on Wednesday that Russia is ruling out a restriction on diesel exports, and that a ban on gasoline exports may be lifted anytime if the marketplace becomes saturated. Throughout a see to Iran, the Kremlin point man for Russia's. energy sector said: The circumstance on the domestic petroleum. items market is steady. This step is preventive, that is,. today we do not have a shortage. We look forward and guarantee the. balance of supply and demand for the future. This is a completely typical circumstance. When the marketplace is. saturated and there is a...

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Russia's seaborne oil item exports fell in January, estimations reveal

Russia's January seaborne oil item exports fell 8.6% from a year earlier and 2% from the previous month to 10.792 million metric lots owing to lower processing and unexpected refinery repair work, information from industry sources and computations showed. Numerous big Russian refineries have been hit by drone attacks and failures over the past 2 months. As an outcome, oil processing in January dropped 4% from a year previously and 1.4%. from the previous month, Kommersant newspaper reported. Overall oil products exports through the Baltic ports of Primorsk,. Vysotsk, St. Petersburg and Ust-Luga last month fell 13.7% year. on year...

Fossil Fuels

Russia increases fuel exports to Senegal on shipping sector demand - traders, LSEG data

Russia has significantly increased its fuel exports to Senegal this year on increasing bunker need, as more business are diverting cargoes around Africa rather of using Red Sea routes, traders stated and LSEG data showed. Russian fuel oil materials to Senegal in the first two months of 2024 reached 550,000 metric lots compared with 1.08 million tons in the whole of 2023 and 0.37 million heaps in 2022, changing oil product supplies from Rotterdam, the data revealed. Senegal has strong development in bunkering, one trader stated. The bunker fuel providers are gaining from the situation in Suez. Given that December...