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FUJAIRAH / WAM
Stockpiles of oil products at the Port of Fujairah fell 4 percent in the week to December 21, with the biggest decline recorded in middle distillates, the latest data from the
Fujairah Oil Industry Zone (FOIZ) showed.
The total stood at 23.684 million barrels, a drop of 900,000 barrels from the previous week, according to the data provided exclusively to S&P Global Platts.
Middle distillate stocks in Fujairah, including jet fuel and diesel, fell 9.5 per cent on the week to 5.478 million barrels.
The volume of jet fuel cargoes headed to Asia has seen a fourfold increase for second-half of December loadings from the Middle East and India, compared with first-half December, underscoring the pick-up in the Asian aviation sector, industry sources told S&P Global Platts.
Second half December-loading Middle East and Indian fixtures of jet fuel with East-bound options grew to 485,000 mt, a jump from 120,000 mt for first half of December-loadings, according to industry sources and Platts cFlow trade-flow software.