Saudi Arabia Pivots to Spot Oil Sales After Key Pipeline Goes Offline
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Saudi Arabia is offering Asian buyers more oil to load via ship-to-ship transfers at the Omani port of Sohar, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing industry sources. The move comes as Saudi Arabia responds to drone attacks that damaged its key Red Sea pipeline.
Saudi Arabia is stepping up the direct sale of crude oil located just outside the Strait of Hormuz. The move follows the closure of the kingdom's major east-west pipeline after a drone attack.
Saudi Arabia Pivots to Spot Oil Sales After Key Pipeline Goes Offline
So far this week, Saudi Arabia has sold as many as 20 million barrels of crude oil in the spot market to be picked up from just outside the Strait of Hormuz, after the Kingdom was forced to shut down the key onshore pipeline that helps it bypass the chokepoint, unnamed traders with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg on Wednesday. Chinese refiners, including state-held giants and independent refiners, as well as crude processors in other East…
Saudi Arabia is intensifying immediate crude sales from outside the Strait of Hormuz, following the closure of a pipeline east-west in the Kingdom, which stopped flows across the country to its Red Sea coast. Saudi Aramco sold about 20 million barrels of Asian refining refineries this week, which can be loaded during the current and next month from an area located just outside the Strait of Horms, according to traders familiar with [...] the Sau…
Saudi Arabia is accelerating the sale of crude oil in the spot market from delivery points outside the Strait of Hormuz after the country's East-West pipeline was shut down. It has agreed to sell approximately 20 million barrels of crude oil to refineries in Asia, with delivery to locations outside the Strait of Hormuz… (Read original news: Saudi Arabia increases oil shipments through Hormuz after Red Sea pipeline closure)
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