Good morning. The US is making moves to fill supply gaps in the absence of Russian crude, and American exporters are likely set to play an increasingly important role to sustain oil supplies in Europe.
Let's break it down.
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1. As Russian oil slows down, the US is ramping up. To help replace missing Russian energy supplies, the US has super-sized its crude deliveries to Europe, using tankers double the normal size.
This month, a 2-million barrel supertanker delivered oil from the US to Spain for the first time since 2015, Bloomberg reported, before making stops in Germany and the Netherlands.
American exports are plugging the gap as the EU attempts to wean itself off Russian oil and as some buyers self-sanction from doing business with Moscow.
"As most European buyers are phasing down Russian crude imports, more replacement barrels are set to come from the US going forward, likely underpinning the trend to bigger vessels," a chief economist said Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Russia's largest state-run oil producer, Rosneft, failed to sell 37 million barrels of its flagship Urals crude, traders told Reuters Tuesday. The ratio of outgoing Urals seaborne exports to Europe has cratered from 90% to 50%.
A Polish news outlet reported Tuesday that Russia has halted gas shipments to Poland, signaling a retaliatory measure by the Kremlin against the EU. European gas prices soared as much as 17% following the news.
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