Oil Products Market Coverage

On the report side, we leverage our extensive expertise in the refining and oil markets to deliver supply, demand and trade analysis for the main products across the barrel. In addition, we also provide specialist deep-dive reports on the light, middle and heavy ends of the barrel. Further details can be found below. Our insights and analysis are presented in a timely manner and we respond quickly to changes in the market so our clients can identify the key market shifts and react to short-term trading opportunities promptly.

Our detailed analytics help you identify clear emerging trends, structural changes and seasonal patterns determining future products supply/demand balances and product prices to help drive your short-term trading decisions. Our oil products analytics can be seamlessly integrated into your own system, allowing you to manipulate the data or compare it internally.

As part of our oil products coverage, clients will receive regular reports, alerts, advisories and commentaries in email or PDF format, regularly updated Excel data sets, direct access to our online client portal and oil online data platform*, contact with our expert consultants/analysts via email/conference-call/telephone/in-person meetings, invites to complementary market update webinars and ongoing consultations with key members of our oil team.

* Depending on the level of coverage taken

Our middle distillates coverage tracks the different regional markets and price spreads in the middle distillate space including jet vs diesel regrades, gasoil vs diesel sulphur spreads, VGO economics, as well as regional arbitrage spreads and bunker dynamics.

Fiercely independent, our price forecasts are informed by detailed demand data split out by sector from the bottom up and married with state-of-the-art refinery modelling on the supply side. The resulting balances can be used to predict trade flows before they happen.

Key analysis and insights on the global residual fuel oil market. On the supply side, we examine refinery investment, inventories, fuel availability for VLSFO and HSFO across various countries identifying the shorts and lengths in each region by marine fuel type, the viability and adoption of competing fuels such as LNG, ammonia and methanol in bunkering, and alternative fuels that may displace residual fuel oil in the power generation sector.

On the demand side we provide analysis on bunker sale volumes in the key hubs of Singapore, South Korea, China, Fujairah, and Panama, categorized by fuel type, and also analyze the impact of other competing sources of residual fuel oil demand, such as the power generation sector, and how this will impact pricing.

On the price side, we forecast VLSFO and HSFO prices and analyze the arbitrage of VLSFO and HSFO prices between the key hubs in Singapore, taking into account the volatile freight costs between regions.