(BOE Report) – The trickle of tankers exiting the Strait of Hormuz has gathered pace in recent weeks, as traders adopt stealth measures to make the crossing. While this is freeing some of the vast oil inventories trapped in the Gulf, it does not signal a slow return to normalcy. Instead, it previews the opaque, fragmented energy market the Iran
(Investing) – LONDON – Investors placed an approximately $950 million bet on oil prices falling just hours before the U.S. and Iran announced a ceasefire, the latest large wager on the direction of the world’s most traded commodity ahead of a major policy announcement by President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, investors sold a combined 8,600 lots of Brent and U.S. crude
(BOE Report) – Traders have rebranded more than $1 billion of Venezuelan oil shipments to China as Brazilian crude over the past year, according to two tanker tracking firms, company documents and four traders, helping buyers to cut logistics costs and circumvent U.S. sanctions. Independent refiners in China are the main buyers of seaborne oil shipments from countries sanctioned by
(Oil Price) – Big traders of the U.S. WTI Midland crude, which is now part of the dated Brent benchmark, have used a ‘bookout’ option in the Platts window to reroute Europe-bound cargoes elsewhere, in a move that could influence the price of dated Brent, Reuters reported exclusively on Tuesday, citing trading sources and analysts. The so-called bookout clause is allowed under the
