Asia Naphtha/Gasoline-Naphtha margins inch up, gasoline export expected to be capped
Sept 13 (Reuters) -Asia's naphtha margins reached a near six-month high on Friday to hit $105.13 per metric ton over Brent crude. It last traded at $106.05 on March 13 earlier this year.
In the gasoline market, no deals were concluded at the end of closing on Friday. The crack fell to a week's low of $3.75 per barrel above Brent crude, from $4.70 on Thursday. It last hit $3.24 on Sept. 6.
Gasoline exports is expected to remain capped going forward as refineries are likely to still prioritise jet fuel production and exports amid continued strong recovery in the aviation sector, while Chinese domestic demand for gasoline should rise with the upcoming Mid-Autumn festival and Golden Week holidays, an LSEG report said.
Supplies from India to Africa appears to be diminishing as Nigeria's 650,000-barrels per day Dangote oil refinery started supplying the domestic market with gasoline from this month, with initial supply at 25 million litres daily and increasing to 30 million litres from October. This could further pressure margins in Asia as swing barrels from India could be prompted to head towards Asia instead, the report added.
Traders believe the upcoming maintenance season and the refining cuts in response to slimming margins could relatively stabilise the margins in the short term, which could potentially cap further downside to price benchmarks.
NEWS
Oil prices extended their rally on Friday and were on course for a weekly gain, sparked by output disruption in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Francine forced the evacuation of production platforms. Brent crude futures LCOc1 rose 38 cents to $72.35 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures CLc1 rose 40 cents to $69.37. O/R
Russia's offline primary oil refining capacity in September is set to jump 34% from August, owing to technical outages, Ukrainian drone attacks and seasonal maintenance, according to Reuters calculations based on data from industry sources. REF/OUT
INVENTORIES
Gasoline stocks at the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage hub fell by about 6% on the week ending Sept.12 to 918,000 tons as exports flowed on the transatlantic route and as blending activity slowed, Insights Global's Lars van Wageningen said.
Naphtha stocks fall to 469,000 tons from prior week's 491,000 tons, the data showed.
PRICES
CASH | ASIA CLOSE | Change | Prev Close | RIC |
OSN Naphtha CFR Japan M1 ($/mt) | 648.50 | 7.75 | 640.75 | NAF-1H-TYO |
OSN Naphtha CFR Japan M2 ($/mt) | 643.00 | 7.75 | 635.25 | NAF-2H-TYO |
OSN Naphtha Diff ($/mt) | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 | NAF-TYO-DIF |
Naphtha Netback FOB Sing ($/bbl) | 70.06 | 0.92 | 69.14 | NAF-SIN |
Naphtha Diff FOB Sing | 0.40 | 0.00 | 0.40 | NAF-SIN-DIF |
Naphtha-Brent Crack ($/mt) | 105.13 | 1.38 | 103.75 | NAF-SIN-CRK |
Gasoline 97 ($/bbl) | 81.14 | -0.10 | 81.24 | GL97-SIN |
Gasoline 95 ($/bbl) | 80.80 | -0.10 | 80.90 | GL95-SIN |
Gasoline 92 ($/bbl) | 76.20 | -0.10 | 76.30 | GL92-SIN |
Gasoline crack ($/bbl) | 3.75 | -0.95 | 4.70 | GL92-SIN-CRK |
For a list of derivatives prices, including margins, please double click the RICs below. | ||||
Brent M1 | BRENTSGMc1 | |||
Naphtha CFR Japan M1 | NACFRJPSWMc1 | |||
Naphtha CFR Japan M1/M2 | NACFRJPSDMc1 | |||
Naphtha CFR Japan M2 | NACFRJPSWMc2 | |||
Naphtha Japan-Sing Netback M1 | NAPTC4SPDMc1 | |||
Naphtha Japan-Sing Netback M2 | NAPTC4SPDMc2 | |||
Naphtha FOB Sing M1 | NAFOBSGSWMc1 | |||
Naphtha FOB Sing M1/M2 | NAFOBSGSDMc1 | |||
Naphtha FOB Sing M2 | NAFOBSGSWMc2 | |||
Naphtha Cracks M1 | NACFRJPCKMc1 | |||
East-West Naphtha M1 | NAPJPEWMc1 | |||
East-West Naphtha M2 | NAPJPEWMc2 | |||
NWE Naphtha M1 | NAPCNWEAMc1 | |||
NWE Naphtha M1/M2 | NAPCNWEASMc1 | |||
NWE Naphtha M2 | NAPCNWEAMc2 | |||
Crack NWE Naphtha-Brent M1 | NAPCNWEACMc1 | |||
Crack NWE Naphtha-Brent M2 | NAPCNWEACMc2 | |||
*Sing refers to Singapore | ||||
Reporting by Haridas; Editing by Shailesh Kuber
免責聲明: XM Group提供線上交易平台的登入和執行服務，允許個人查看和/或使用網站所提供的內容，但不進行任何更改或擴展其服務和訪問權限，並受以下條款與條例約束：（i）條款與條例；（ii）風險提示；（iii）完全免責聲明。網站內部所提供的所有資訊，僅限於一般資訊用途。請注意，我們所有的線上交易平台內容並不構成，也不被視為進入金融市場交易的邀約或邀請 。金融市場交易會對您的投資帶來重大風險。
所有缐上交易平台所發佈的資料，僅適用於教育/資訊類用途，不包含也不應被視爲適用於金融、投資稅或交易相關諮詢和建議，或是交易價格紀錄，或是任何金融商品或非應邀途徑的金融相關優惠的交易邀約或邀請。
本網站的所有XM和第三方所提供的内容，包括意見、新聞、研究、分析、價格其他資訊和第三方網站鏈接，皆爲‘按原狀’，並作爲一般市場評論所提供，而非投資建議。請理解和接受，所有被歸類為投資研究範圍的相關内容，並非爲了促進投資研究獨立性，而根據法律要求所編寫，而是被視爲符合營銷傳播相關法律與法規所編寫的内容。請確保您已詳讀並完全理解我們的非獨立投資研究提示和風險提示資訊，相關詳情請點擊 這裡查看。
