World Oil (Bloomberg) –Oil traders are scooping up options contracts that would pay out if U.S. crude futures plummet against international benchmark Brent, a signal that some believe the Biden administration could intervene in the market again to bring down oil prices. Some traders have bet on the small chance that West Texas Intermediate’s discount to Brent surges past $10
Reuters Commodity merchants and investment firms such as Citadel, Gunvor and Trafigura are bolstering U.S. teams that specialize in trading renewable fuels as demand soars, according to people familiar with the matter. Many trading firms already have an established presence in Europe, but the production of advanced biofuels that act as petroleum fuel substitutes has driven hiring in the United
Reuters LONDON – Crude oil traders expect the market to be closer to balance in the next few months as production cuts are implemented and the global transport system emerges from a coronavirus lockdown. Futures prices and swaps linked to physical prices show the market has now moved through the worst of the crisis caused by the volume war between
Reuters LONDON – Oil prices were mixed on Tuesday as optimism about the easing of coronavirus-related restrictions reassured markets, although traders remained cautious with storage capacities filling up fast and supply cuts not deep enough to counter falling demand. Brent crude LCOc1 rose 78 cents, or 4%, to $20.77 a barrel at 1338 GMT, following a 6.8% slide on Monday.
CNBC The oil market is facing uncharted territory as the drop-off in demand, caused by the coronavirus pandemic, combined with rapidly filling storage, sent prices plunging into negative territory for the first time in history. And with only guesswork as to when stay-at-home orders might be lifted and when crude demand might pick up, traders warn that oil could continue
Reuters LONDON – Traders are storing an estimated record 160 million barrels of oil on ships – double the level from two weeks ago as they seek to tackle a glut of stocks created by a slide in global demand from the coronavirus, shipping sources say. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producers including Russia have agreed
Reuters LONDON – U.S. President Donald Trump’s confidence he can get a deal to limit a global oil glut has driven world crude futures higher. But he cannot talk up the underlying physical market that shows the full extent of the demand destruction following the coronavirus outbreak. The Brent crude oil benchmark, used to price more than half the world’s
Houston Chronicle The world’s oil tankers are being filled with crude at a record pace as the options to store a glut on land rapidly diminish, one of the industry’s largest owners said. A combination of surging production from key producers worldwide and capitulating demand in the face of the coronavirus outbreak means that land storage is being overwhelmed, said
Reuters NEW YORK/LONDON – Traders are scrambling to secure oil storage tanks on land and at sea to cope with slumping demand resulting from the coronavirus outbreak and a flood of supply from the Saudi-Russia price war. Rates to store oil at the world’s main trading hubs from Japan to South Africa and the United States are surging as millions
Houston Chronicle Saudi Arabia and Russia’s price war is handing over a multi-billion dollar profit opportunity to the world’s largest oil traders. With both Riyadh and Moscow outdoing each other by pumping more oil into an already flooded market, crude prices have flipped. A new price structure, called a contango, allows the traders to make easy money by buying crude
Houston Chronicle The world’s largest energy traders enjoyed one of their best ever years in 2019 as pipeline outages, dramatic changes in ship fuel regulations and Middle East conflicts shook up the global oil market. The bonanza extended beyond the independent traders like Vitol Group and Trafigura Group Ltd. to the in-house units of oil giants Royal Dutch Shell Total
