Our Refining Views report series provides a comprehensive understanding of the global refining industry and markets. At the centre of our analysis is an industry leading, state-of-the-art propriety refining model that allows our analysts to properly differentiate between regions, refining setups, and relevant crude oil baskets.
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Refining margin models
Refinery outages and capacity additions
Global Refinery Margins
In this weekly report, we analyse the underlying complexities of the global refining market, presenting product-by-product updates for key regions: East of Suez, Americas, and the wider European region including the Former Soviet Union and Africa.
- Analysis of weekly movements in petroleum product crack spreads including a short-term outlook, informed by arbitrage calculations, refinery maintenance updates and secondary processing unit margins.
- Weekly updates to benchmark refining margins for each region using our proprietary in-house refining model.
Issue 42 - 19 Oct'20
Light ends lose their edge, for now
Issue 41 - 12 Oct'20
A return to higher levels of Chinese buying would spell disaster for the nascent recovery in margins, but an upturn could be around the corner.
Issue 40 - 5 Oct'20
The uptick in margins is unlikely to be sustainable so long as nameplate overcapacity remains
Issue 39 - 28 Sep'20
European refining is both suffering from, and sheltered by, weak middle distillates
Refining Outlook
Refining Outlook is an extensive quarterly publication that offers clients an excellent synopsis of the latest and projected developments on global petroleum products and refining markets in two parts.
- Part one investigates the general market conditions concentrating on the economy, supply and demand, inventories, freight, regulatory changes, and emissions.
- Part two presents a detailed petroleum product-by-product outlook for the next quarter including outlooks for refinery maintenance and upcoming expansions.
- Also includes data compilations of our balance figures, refinery maintenance and refining capacity additions.
Issue 3 - 22 Sep'20
With jet fuel demand still far below last year's levels, refiners face strong pressure to reduce distillate supply. Margins continue to suffer, bringing with them increasing consolidative pressure.
Issue 2 - 26 Jun'20
The market's new normal remains a rather precarious state, with overcapacity on the crude and product supply side its defining features.
Issue 1 - 27 Mar'20
-Quartus horribilis ahead -Impacts of Coronavirus on demand, supply, balances, and stocks
Issue 4 - 17 Dec'19
-Weak margin environment is a nightmare before Christmas -2020 refining to feel systemic pressure of overcapacity -Asia to bear brunt of consolidation