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Louisiana Light • 3 days | 78.61 | -1.95 | -2.42% | ||
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 81.28 | +1.10 | +1.37% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 85.00 | +1.11 | +1.32% | ||
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Mars US • 29 days | 79.71 | -2.05 | -2.51% | ||
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Gasoline • 23 hours | 2.121 | -0.055 | -2.51% |
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 81.28 | +1.10 | +1.37% | ||
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Girassol • 2 days | 81.92 | +1.12 | +1.39% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 85.00 | +1.11 | +1.32% |
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Peace Sour • 2 days | 59.71 | -1.90 | -3.08% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 2 days | 63.56 | -1.90 | -2.90% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 2 days | 68.16 | -1.90 | -2.71% | ||
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Central Alberta • 2 days | 61.71 | -1.90 | -2.99% |
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Eagle Ford • 3 days | 72.44 | -1.90 | -2.56% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 3 days | 72.00 | -2.00 | -2.70% | ||
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Kansas Common • 6 days | 65.00 | -0.75 | -1.14% | ||
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Buena Vista • 4 days | 83.98 | +1.45 | +1.76% |
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Russian ESPO Crude Oil Is Now Trading At A Discount To Brent
Russia’s ESPO crude blend has slipped to a discount to Brent for December loadings to China amid lower Chinese demand and higher freight costs, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing market sources.
ESPO, named after the East-Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline that carries it to export markets, is a light crude with a low sulfur content that independent Chinese refiners are especially partial to.
In recent days, demand for ESPO from China has dropped as refining margins have declined and Chinese refiners are left with limited quotas to export fuels until the end of this year, according to Reuters’ sources.
Two months ago, a shortage of diesel fuel pushed Russia’s ESPO blend to a premium over Brent crude. The shortage prompted a scramble to secure feedstock for the production of the middle distillate which led to ESPO rising to a premium of $0.50 per barrel to Brent crude.
Just weeks ago, ESPO loading from Kozmino to China in November traded at a premium of around $1 a barrel to the Brent benchmark.
Now ESPO has slipped to a discount to Brent and cargoes loading from the Kozmino port in Russia’s Far East in December are trading at a discount of up to $1 per barrel to ICE Brent on a delivered ex-ship basis, Reuters’ sources said.
Despite the current discount to Brent, ESPO is one of Russia’s most profitable crude exports, one of Reuters’ sources said.
The lower ESPO export price is also the result of surging freight rates for shipping Russian crude after the United States sanctioned last month two tanker owners for carrying Russian oil sold for over the price cap of $60 per barrel. This was the first time the U.S. has imposed sanctions for a breach of the price cap that the G7 and the European Union agreed to impose on Russia last year.
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