Oil Markets

As trade tensions take their toll on the shipping sector, will sellers of crude oil have to slash differentials to offset the high cost of transport? And how can the owners of clean vessels capitalise on high rates? Platts reporters Emma Kettley and Chris To discuss the market with Joel Hanley in...

As the traditionally FOB-based Dated Brent benchmark starts incorporating CIF offers, S&P Global Platts senior director of price group Jonty Rushforth and EMEA crude managing editor Paula Vanlaningham discuss what this means for liquidity and the volume of information coming into the...

Saudi Arabia has said that its crude production capacity would be restored to 11 million b/d by end-September, and to the full 12 million b/d in November. Supply uncertainties, however, continue to grip the Asian market. As the impact of the attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities become clearer,...

As the oil market players digested the insights from the annual APPEC meeting in Singapore, an explosive attack on critical oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia shut in over 5% of global oil supply. Joel Hanley discusses with Eklavya Gupte and Jonty Rushforth this huge shut-in of crude oil, with...

With all of the focus on sour crudes ahead of IMO 2020, the relationship between naphtha-rich and distillate-rich barrels has attracted less attention. But increasingly, the product split in sweet crude yields has become a driving factor as refineries gear up for the new low-sulfur world. S&P...

While the US continues to count the cost of Hurricane Dorian, Europe’s refined products markets are seeing differing impacts. Joel Hanley hears from Platts reporters Solomon Lanitis and Virginie Malicier what effects a storm in the US has on European imports and exports. And in the latest IMO...

S&P Global Platts editors Ada Taib, Eesha Muneeb and Avantika Ramesh give listeners a preview of what will keep oil market participants busy at the 2019 Asia Pacific Petroleum Conference, including discussions around the impact of IMO 2020 on the Asian market, updates from Abu Dhabi's National...

IMO 2020 may be looming and the overall trajectory for sour crude such as Urals and high sulfur fuel oil is down, but with anomalous trading patterns and pockets of tightness, the high sulfur element can still show some strength. S&P Global reporters William Bland and Tamara Sleiman tell...

As trade tensions mount, US crude production continues to grow and it has to go somewhere; Europe and Asia have been accommodating homes so far but have troubles of their own. How much more crude does Europe need, and who is losing out in the US export explosion? Joel Hanley is joined by Platts...

As ethanol plays a greater role in European gasoline standards, S&P Global Platts reporters Solomon Lanitis and Joel Hanley discuss the impact of the latest evolution in the best known part of the oil barrel. Following this, Tamara Sleiman hosts another edition of the Platts IMO 2020 Special...