Gasoline prices in Western Canada and the US Midwest have jumped due to supply issues surrounding the turnaround of Suncor's 135,000 b/d Edmonton, Alberta, refinery, industry sources said Thursday. "Suncor's move to secure gasoline and ...
Tags: Retail Gasoline, Chemicals
The rapid pace of new US crude production has traders scrambling to assess constantly moving crude differentials as supporting infrastructure grows and changes the dynamics. Not long ago, there was too much crude in Cushing, Oklahoma, the ...
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UK oil and gas major BP has sought environmental approvals from the Australian federal government for a $600 million exploration program in the frontier waters of the Great Australian Bight, off the continent's south coast. BP holds four ...
Asian isomer-grade mixed xylene traders are eying opportunities to make the reverse arbitrage movement from Northeast Asia to the US Gulf Coast given the recent widening of prices between both regions, traders said Wednesday. Several ...
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US ethylene margins climbed for the week as production issues over the weekend pushed spot markets higher Monday. Power outages were reported at Flint Hills Resources in Port Arthur, Texas, and at Chevron Phillips Chemicals' Sweeny ...
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The recent narrowing in the Brent premium to NYMEX crude, which fell to a 17-month low of $7.48/b on Thursday, is set to continue into the third quarter, with $5/b a possibility, before widening again early next year, Goldman Sachs analysts ...
Tags: Brent/WTI, Brent premium
The May US mixed xylene contract price settled at $3.94/gallon ($1,193.82/mt), 11 cents ($33.33/mt) higher than April's mark, trading sources said Monday. The MX contract price had settled at $3.83/gal for April, which was 57 cents lower ...
Tags: Mixed Xylene, Chemicals
As a result of renewed focus and restructuring over the past few years, BP now will direct as much as 75-80% of its capital expenditures to upstream projects over the next decade, BP's chief executive of upstream said Monday. The world ...
Canadian Natural Resources' production averaged 489,157 barrels a day in first-quarter 2013, up nearly 24% from 395,461 b/d in the same period a year ago on record output from both its heavy oil and oil sands assets in Alberta, the company ...
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Refiners along the US Gulf Coast "left money on the table" by performing much-needed seasonal maintenance this winter, giving up profits from exports during a period of substantially higher diesel crack spreads, RBN Energy analyst Sandy ...
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Arbitrage shipments of styrene monomer from the US and Europe are set to arrive in China in late May and June, likely widening the backwardation between the two months in the Asian SM market, trade sources said Thursday. Around ...
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US spot paraxylene jumped $55/mt this past week amid stronger demand from Asia, industry sources said Friday. Thursday's spot PX assessment of $1,445/mt FOB US Gulf Coast marks the highest level since March 25, when it was assessed at ...
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The war of words between the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers and the Renewable Fuels Association hit a boiling point Thursday morning. RFA President Bob Dinneen was responding to comments Wednesday from AFPM President ...
US Gulf Coast high sulfur fuel oil began strengthening after a spate of recent selling as players look forward to a shift in supply/demand balances toward tightness in the near term, trading sources said Tuesday. "Availability will be ...
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Fixtures for shipments of more than 190,000 mt of heavy naphtha bound for Asia from the US Gulf Coast show that the arbitrage window has reopened to meet firm demand from Asia, trade and shipping sources said Friday. It marks the second ...
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