A digest of the energy, feedstock and petrochemical news that moves resin prices for Malaysian plastics converters.
Daily digest
22 September: energy and feedstocks
- Saudi Arabia moves crude through Gulf transfer routesSaudi Arabia has sold about 60 million barrels of crude from Ras Tanura for loading through ship-to-ship transfers at Oman’s Sohar port in September and October.
- Aramco loads 14 million barrelsSaudi Aramco loaded about 14 million barrels of crude onto seven very large crude carriers inside the Mideast Gulf on Sunday.
- European refiners face higher crude premiumsEuropean refiners are paying record premiums for alternative crude as disruption to Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline tightens regional supplies.
- Russia extends diesel export restrictionsRussia plans to extend its ban on most diesel exports beyond the end of September as attacks on its refineries continue.
- BlackRock infrastructure investmentTotalEnergies has agreed for BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners to invest in its African oil and gas infrastructure assets.
