Second wave of floating storage triggered by ailing oil market

  • 📰 Reuters
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 23 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 12%
  • Publisher: 97%

Malaysia News News

Malaysia Malaysia Latest News,Malaysia Malaysia Headlines

A stalled global economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is leading to a fresh build-up of global oil supplies, pushing traders including Trafigura to book tankers to store millions of barrels of crude oil and refined fuels at sea again.

FILE PHOTO: A view of Tullow Oil's newly completed Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel Prof. John Evans Atta Mills at Sembcorp Marine's Jurong Shipyard in Singapore January 20, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su

A number of the vessels are newly-built and are due to store gasoil and diesel, for which unsold volumes are especially high after a modest recovery mid-summer. Global oil inventories remain sharply above average when looking at recent years. Although stocks have drawn at a pace of around 1.6 million barrels per day over the past 30 days, they are still some 600 million barrels above last year’s levels, according to Morgan Stanley.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 2. in MY
 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

That won’t be the case when we get over this coronavirus scare and people get back to work around the world

are we heading for -34 dollars a barrel again ? Please tell my gas station so that the next time I fill up, they pay me to take the fuel off their hands. I like the thought of that !

The United States is ENERGY INDEPENDENT because President Trump is in office and works hard at preserving their jobs. NOT Joe Biden he will destroy all the hard work of President Trump with job cuts and strangle them with regulations. RE-ELECT Pres. Trump.

The price of gasoline by US State:

Malaysia Malaysia Latest News, Malaysia Malaysia Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Asia stocks set to trade higher; Japan's revised second-quarter GDP data expectedJapan's revised GDP figures for the second quarter are set to be out at around 7:50 a.m. HK/SIN. Preliminary estimates released in mid-August had shown the country's GDP shrinking 27.8% on an annualized basis in April-June.
Source: CNBC - 🏆 12. / 72 Read more »