Fujairah Weekly Oil Inventory Data Stocks Level as of April 22, 2019

Total oil product stocks in Fujairah stood at 25.253 million barrels

Chart Attribute: Fujairah Weekly Oil Inventory Data (as of April 22, 2019) / Source: The Gulf Intelligence

As of Monday, April 22 total oil product stocks in Fujairah stood at 25.253 million barrels hitting a fresh record high, with the last high recorded week of April 8th of 25.088 million barrels. Overall product stocks rose 2.9% adding 705,000 barrels largely led by a build in residual product stocks. Stock reporting began at the start of 2017.

Stocks of light distillates fell for the third consecutive week falling 3.1% week on week. Total volumes fell 347,000 barrels to stand at 10.835 million barrels. This is the first time since March 11 they have stood below 11 million barrels. A falling gasoline crack was seen as evidence of some weakness in the Asian gasoline market, despite steady fundamentals in recent days. The 92 RON physical gasoline crack to front-month ICE Brent futures stood at $6.86/b on Tuesday, reflecting a fall of $0.78/b week on week and the first time since early April it has stood below $7/b.

Stocks of middle distillates rose by 32,000 barrels hitting 1.993 million barrels showing a build of 1.6%. This is the first time they have stood under 2 million barrels since March 4. Despite turnarounds across Asia, poor demand was seen as weighing on sentiment. "Gasoil demand this year is really weak, despite the turnaround season and the spot market is trading at a discount," a trader said.

Stocks of heavy distillates rose 8.9%, adding 1.020 million barrels on the week to stand at 12.425 million barrels. This is the second highest stock level recorded, with the record high of 13.456 million barrels seen on July 17, 2017. Demand for bunkers in Fujairah was seen to have picked up by Tuesday having slowed at the start of the week on an uptick in the flat price of bunkers driven by higher crude prices. 380 CST Fujairah delivered bunkers rose to a close to one-month high premium to Singapore of $4.75/mt with the same premium seen on March 27. The premium was last higher on December 21, 2018, when a premium of $5.25/mt was seen. Delivered bunkers in the Middle Eastern port assessed on Tuesday at $437.75/mt.

Chart Attribute: Fujairah Weekly Oil Inventory Data (Jan 9, 2017 - Apr. 22, 2018) / Source: The Gulf Intelligence

About the S&P Global Platts and FOIZ Fujairah Data Project:

The Government of Fujairah in 2016 announced a plan to publish weekly data on refined products held at onshore commercial terminals at Fujairah as part of its effort to position the Indian Ocean port as a global oil trading and storage. It appointed S&P Global Platts to distribute the weekly inventory data. FEDCom was established by the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone to collect, verify and distribute inventory data to replicate the data sets provided at other global trading centers such as Singapore and Rotterdam.Fujairah has about 41.5 million barrels of commercial oil product land storage available for leasing.

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