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Four oil companies and one trader supplied northwest Europe with 80.5% of its imported jet fuel in the first 10 months of this year, according to the OPIS Tanker Tracker on FleetMon.com. Shell, Vitol, BP, Kuwait Petroleum and ... continue reading

Monthly U.S. exports of ultra-low sulfur diesel to north west Europe are set to plunge to the lowest level of 2014 during October, as it remains unprofitable to buy and ship the middle distillate to the continent from north ... continue reading

Shipments of ultra-low-sulfur diesel to Europe from Russia and the U.S. are continuing at record levels through the second and third quarters of 2014, as trade data reveals North American volumes almost doubled from April through June, and Russian ... continue reading

Jet fuel volumes into Europe have declined by 13% in the third quarter and by 32% for the first nine months of 2014, compared to the same time periods last year, according to data from the OPIS Tanker Tracker on ... continue reading

Four tankers carrying 300,000 metric tons of jet fuel will be arriving at ports in northwest Europe or the U.K. from the Middle East or Asia for the week beginning Aug. 31, according to the OPIS Tanker Tracker ... continue reading

Saudi Arabia's SATORP refinery may finally be ready to send its first cargoes of ultra-low-sulfur diesel to Europe, with two tankers seen chartered by joint venture partner Total to load within the next two weeks, both destined for the ... continue reading

Monthly exports of ULSD to Europe from the United States are seen at the highest in nine months for August, with volumes shipped on 42 tankers tracked at 1,836,000 tons (about 13.7 million bbl), according to the ... continue reading

An increase in Europe-bound jet fuel imports for August may help explain tumbling premiums being paid for the middle distillate, as volumes anticipated to reach the continent appear to exceed the prior month by 19%. August jet cargoes arriving in ... continue reading

Three tankers carrying 335,000 metric tons of jet fuel will be arriving at ports in northwest Europe or the U.K. from the Middle East or Asia for the week beginning August 10, with another tanker carrying 40,000 ... continue reading

The U.S. is ramping up exports of ULSD to Europe in August with some 1.54 million metric tons of ultra-low sulfur diesel (about 11.5 million bbl) already tracked on 35 tankers loaded in the region that are ... continue reading

July cargoes of jet fuel arriving in northwest Europe and the Mediterranean are tallied by OPIS at 1,514,000 metric tons, (around 1.2 million bbl), which is 17% lower than June volumes. August volumes are looking higher, estimated ... continue reading

Two refinery fires in Russia have slashed July exports of ultra-low-sulfur diesel shipped from Primorsk and other Baltic seaports, falling 28% lower than last month, at 875,000 metric tons, or 6.5 million bbl. That's the lowest volumes ... continue reading

The struggle for Kurdish crude oil cargo aboard the tanker UNITED KALAVRVTA between Iraq and Kurdistan (see our related news) has got a surprising turn of events: yesterday a U.S. judge rejected the order to seize the cargo. As ... continue reading

Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish government is attempting to sell crude oil from its territory and wants to become independent from the Iraqi central government (see our previous news on this topic). However, Iraq insistently continues to prevent the Kurdish sales ... continue reading

Iraq's autonomous Kurdish government has successfully delivered a cargo of its oil to buyers for the first time - setting a precedent that could deepen a standoff with Baghdad, reports The Wall Street Journal. This challenge to Iraq's central ... continue reading

Three oil producers and one trader supplied north-west Europe with 71% of its imported jet fuel in the first seven months of this year, highlighting the concentrated nature of the regional market, which has the world's biggest deficit of ... continue reading

Exports of ultra-low-sulfur diesel from Russia and other Baltic seaports are currently tracked at 1.215 million metric tons (over 9 million barrels) in June, 8% higher than the prior month, according to the OPIS Tanker Tracker on FleetMon.com ... continue reading

Some 1.47 million metric tons of ultra-low-sulfur diesel (about 10.8 million bbl) is tracked on 35 tankers from the U.S. arriving at northwest Europe or ports in the Mediterranean region during June, according to the OPIS Tanker ... continue reading

The estimated June tally of Europe-bound tankers laden with jet fuel has dropped over the past week as several ships anticipated to arrive this month appear delayed at loading ports in Asia and the Middle East Gulf. Jet fuel volumes ... continue reading

A third ultra-low-sulfur diesel cargo from a newly commissioned Saudi refinery is being shipped to a Caribbean storage destination, bypassing Europe. Two previous cargoes sailed from the SATORP refinery near Jubail to storage in the Caribbean over the past three ... continue reading