Oil Products

Key Benefits

  • Gain a competitive edge in making trading and commercial decisions amid volatile market conditions. Our service helps clients respond to fast-moving market events, helping them understand key drivers and implications.

  • Leverage REA’s industry-leading analysis and global network of experts. Gain insights into regional product markets (middle distillates and fuel oil) in Middle East and China.

  • Receive intelligence updates and analysis of key events impacting Middle distillate and fuel oil balances and pricing. REA collects spot transactions and tenders in the market and has an unparalleled expertise in understanding Middle East and Asia oil and product markets.

  • Clients can access REA’s network of industry specialists, refining experts and geopolitical strategists to understand the key drivers shaping the global products market.

Market Intelligence

East of Suez products

Our flagship East of Suez products note focuses on key trends shaping the East of Suez products market. Our note focuses on Middle East refining activity, diesel balances, fuel oil dynamics, and developments in the China market. Key issues tracked include: product balances in the Middle East, pricing activity (spot/tenders), China runs and yields, product flows, geopolitics and policy and abritrage economics.

Alerts

Clients recieve Alerts in response to market-moving events shaping the middle distillate and fuel oil markets. Our alerts help clients understand factors shaping forward curves, product cracks and spreads.

Deep-dives

Each month, clients recieve a deep-dive note on a key strategic theme shaping either the Middle distillates or fuel oil markets. Previous examples have included: EU refiners and the search for VGO alternatives; gas-to-liquids switching in Europe and Asia; Russian diesel flows in 2022; China’s product export quotas: what’s in store?, among others. Our deep-dives are used to help inform commercial decision-making for traders, refiners and planning teams.

Data

Price forecasts

Stay ahead of the market with REA’s pricing analysis, including analysis on middle distillate and fuel oil pricing outlooks, spreads, forward curves, arbitrage.

Flows and balances

Gain a comprehensive view of global flows by product. Data also includes product balance analysis.

Access

Access to analysts

Our team responds quickly to client questions on fast-moving market events. Clients can leverage our global network of specialists to make decisions confidently.

Webinars

Clients gain access to REA’s webinars which include speakers ranging from trading houses, refiners, government officials, exchanges, banks and other relevant market institutions.

Insight events

Clients are invited to our in-person events held every quarter. Previous events have included speakers from oil companies, the US government, Middle East NOCs and finance.