PODCAST: "Is China Controlling the World’s Oil Market?" Great to talk with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer about the global oil market, Iran, President Trump, and what Beijing is up to. https://t.co/eU1Effb0s5
Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, sparing the US refining capacity of a direct hit. The main refineries alongside his path were >150km away in Mobile (AL) and Pascagoula (MS). Refined fuel production (and offshore crude production) should recover quickly. 引用 @JavierBlas:The first
With diesel back under the spotlight, please find below Google's summary of price movements over the last year. Underlying this is what has become an increasingly influential, multi-directional causal relationship between geopolitics, domestic politics, and economics. For https://t.co/WUxqiORMRK
Worth remembering that to capture trade in gold you need to look at bars (metal shapes technically ...) as well as the gold line item. The US imported a ton of bars in q1 2025 ... https://t.co/mPVM1mm5r6 引用 @jasonfurman:The United States is having an extraordinary record year for exports. Exports
Read more about the latest developments in Canadian crude oil differentials and the fundamentals that drive them in the latest edition of our North American Oil Data Deck: https://t.co/Wgy82jyfPz
lol, 500 kt in November is only 125 kbpd of diesel. Russia usually exports nearly ten times that volume when its refinery fleet isn't getting bombed by Ukrainian drones 引用 @DeItaone:TRUMP ANNOUNCES DEAL WITH PUTIN FOR RUSSIAN DIESEL SUPPLIES President Trump says he held a “highly successful” disc
BREAKING: US President Trump says he has agreed with Vladimir Putin that Russia would export “to the American and Global Marketplace” diesel. The quantities are, however quite small to make a meaningful impact. Trump says Russia will export immediately ~300,000 tonnes (~2.2 https://t.co/9anQ66GsXq
Full headline is 1 days consumption? I mean thanks I guess. 引用 @financialjuice:Trump: Putin Agreed to Release Diesel Into Global Oil Market - Truth Social https://t.co/PcQn6r7Nxk
Let’s than a month since Congress voted for (and President Trump signed into law) the “Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026” that gives the White House huge powers to limit the Kremlin’s sales of energy, the first move is to lift sanctions on Russian diesel.
The Trump-Putin deal on diesel puts Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in a difficult spot: if Kyiv continues blowing up Russian refineries, Zelenskyy would be directly jeopardising a political and economic deal between Washington and Moscow.
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when you do a TV hit and the anchor closes off with something along the lines of “the perfect person to provide us that necessary Commodity Context” https://t.co/bshPZyW8Uo
Taking a step back from the ups-and-downs of the oil market, one remarkable feat: global economic growth remains largely unchanged since the spring. @KGeorgieva: "Steady global growth has continued" The IMF/WB annual gathering is next week: https://t.co/Rn1XhHXA5L
Per Grok, “Trucked compressed natural gas is reported to cost roughly four times pipeline deliveries once labor, equipment, and truck fuel are included, and scaling it even to 100 MW of the 2.45 GW Project Jupiter site would require a large trailer roughly every 40 minutes.”
We’re in the middle of the most acute refined products market crisis in history and China is… … cutting cuts to fresh recent seasonal lows. https://t.co/E7vpk6vNJn 引用 @VKMacro:China refinery run rates are trending lower again for SOE. Where are we on imports? https://t.co/fUREB6DGS8
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Let's hope that the use of gasoline / diesel online price-disclosure works better in the UK than it did in Chile, where it pushed prices higher (rather than undercut rivals, many gas stations matched their rivals' higher prices instead): https://t.co/69zTGrEYtF
Oil is up over 5% today courtesy of heightened tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and the looming threat of Hurricane Isaias [Past performance is no guarantee of future results] https://t.co/m9GpyVH9SS
The @DallasFed tries to answer what’s behind high diesel prices? “Global refinery capacity has declined by as much as 10 percent amid mounting transportation challenges and geopolitical tensions.” https://t.co/6krbOSco3t
Would encourage everyone to listen to the whole conversation with Michelle Brouhard, Head of Policy and Geopolitical Risk at Kpler, on the Oil Ground Up podcast here: https://t.co/6Vpk6hKs0U 引用 @HormuzReport:BREAKING: A senior Kpler analyst suspects some Gulf producers are quietly paying Iran huge
And there are of course offsetting developments in the financial account -- DRAM dollars now trump petrodollars ... (as an aside, this shock hasn't reduced China's surplus, as it increased both exports and imports similarly)
Today, as part of Operation Economic Outcast, Treasury is targeting the remnants of Iran’s shadow fleet: the aging network of tankers the regime relies on to move billions of dollars’ worth of petroleum and petroleum products to foreign markets. Today’s action effectively