Friday, February 21, 2025
US refiners' Q2 profits fall on low margins, soft fuel demand- oil and gas 360

US refiners’ Q2 profits fall on low margins, soft fuel demand

Yahoo Finance NEW YORK – U.S. oil refiners are expected to report sharply lower second quarter earnings from a year ago after a listless summer driving season that weakened refining margins, energy analysts said. Refiners ramped up processing capacity in the three months ended June 30 to 93.5%, compared with 91% in the prior-year period, to meet an expected spike

Record US summer heat, hurricanes could roil fuel prices as oil refiners sweat- oil and gas 360

Record US summer heat, hurricanes could roil fuel prices as oil refiners sweat

Reuters NEW YORK – A double whammy of record heat and hurricanes should test U.S. refiners’ resilience in coming weeks, raising the risk of extremely volatile fuel prices in the middle of the peak travel season, analysts said. The Atlantic hurricane season from June through November is an annual threat for U.S. refineries. Half of the country’s over 18-million-barrel-per-day refining

Court hearing on Citgo auction could be delayed until September- oil and gas 360

Court hearing on Citgo auction could be delayed until September

Oil Price The court officer who oversees the auction of Venezuela’s PDV Holding, the parent company of refiner Citgo Petroleum, has asked a Delaware court to postpone the hearing on the winning bids by two months until September 19, to have more time to evaluate the bids and negotiate a sales agreement. The deadline for submitting binding bids for Citgo’s

Mexico’s new Pemex refinery still needs important work, is far from ready, sources say- oil and gas 360

Mexico’s new Pemex refinery still needs important work, is far from ready, sources say

BOE Report Mexican state energy company Pemex is unlikely to produce any commercially viable motor fuels at its new Olmeca refinery before the end of the year, five sources said, despite pressure that it should be ready before the outgoing president’s term ends. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a resource nationalist, inaugurated the 340,000-barrel-per-day refinery in July 2022 in his

US refining margins slump as fuel stocks climb: Kemp- oil and gas 360

US refining margins slump as fuel stocks climb: Kemp

BOE Report U.S. oil refineries have been processing petroleum at the fastest rate for the time of year since before the pandemic, but rising fuel inventories have begun to weigh on crack spreads and likely signal a slowdown ahead. Refineries processed 17.5 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude and other feedstocks over the week ending on June 7, the

Analysis-US refiners reward shareholders with big returns despite softer Q1 profits- oil and gas 360

Analysis-US refiners reward shareholders with big returns despite softer Q1 profits

U.S. News NEW YORK (Reuters) – Major U.S. fuel makers returned billions in capital to shareholders in the first quarter and boosted share repurchase programs, even as refining margins softened from recent records and utilization rates fell. Three of the biggest U.S. independent oil refiners – Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66, and Valero Energy – earned combined adjusted profits of $2.93

Marathon Petroleum Q1 earnings and revenue beat estimates- oil and gas 360

Marathon Petroleum Q1 earnings and revenue beat estimates

Oil Price Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE: MPC) reported on Tuesday higher-than-expected earnings and revenues for the first quarter despite lower refining margins and profits compared to the same period last year. Marathon Petroleum’s first-quarter net income came in at $937 million, or $2.58 per diluted share, one of the biggest U.S. refiners said today. The earnings per share were slightly higher than

U.S. refiner Valero Energy beats profit forecasts in Q1- oil and gas 360

U.S. refiner Valero Energy beats profit forecasts in Q1

Oil Price One of the largest U.S. refiners, Valero Energy (NYSE: VLO), saw its adjusted net income more than halve in the first quarter compared to a year earlier, but earnings nevertheless beat the analyst consensus estimate amid tight crude supplies at the start of this year. Valero opened the earnings reporting season on Thursday, announcing an adjusted net income of $1.3

Enterprise receives approval to build Texas deepwater oil port as exports soar- oil and gas 360

Enterprise receives approval to build Texas deepwater oil port as exports soar

World Oil (Bloomberg) – Enterprise Products Partners overcame the last regulatory hurdle to build a proposed deepwater oil port off the coast of Texas aimed at helping record oil exports to flow to markets in Asia and Europe. The United States Maritime Administration issued a license for the Sea Port Oil Terminal, which will allow Enterprise to move forward with

US Gulf Coast heavy crude oil prices firm as supplies tighten- oil and gas 360

US Gulf Coast heavy crude oil prices firm as supplies tighten

Yahoo Finance HOUSTON – Prices for heavier crude oil along the U.S. Gulf Coast have climbed in recent weeks, trading at a rare near-par with lighter oil, a sign of supply tightness that could add to rising gasoline prices. Refineries along the Gulf Coast, which account for more than 55% of total U.S. refining capacity, are geared to run medium

Exclusive: US sanctions hamper Russian efforts to repair refineries- oil and gas 360

Exclusive: US sanctions hamper Russian efforts to repair refineries

US News MOSCOW/LONDON – When engineers at Russian oil firm Lukoil discovered a turbine had broken at their largest refinery on January 4, they quickly realised the problem was far from trivial. There was only one company that knew how to repair the gasoline-producing unit at the NORSI refinery, located on the Volga River, some 430 km (270 miles) east

More than 20% of global oil refining capacity at risk, analysis finds- oil and gas 360

More than 20% of global oil refining capacity at risk, analysis finds

Nasdaq LONDON – More than a fifth of global oil refining capacity is at risk of closure, energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie found in analysis published on Thursday, as gasoline margins weaken and the pressure to reduce carbon emissions mounts. Of 465 refining assets analysed, the consultancy ranked about 21% of 2023 global refining capacity at some risk of closure. Europe