(Twitterbericht uit een Zero Hedge artikel*:)
VIDEO: US Coast Guard says it’s keeping an eye on 27 oil tankers anchored off the coast of Southern California. Another great example of floating storage build-up as demand for oil and refined products plunge | #OOTT #Contango video via @USCGLosAngeles
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Dit zet overigens nog eens een heel groot vraagteken bij de claim dat de VS zelf voorziend is wat betreft olieverbruik, blijkbaar is ook dat een onderdeel van de tactiek die de grootste leugenaar op aarde, Trump hanteert om zijn achterban te besodemieteren....
Om e.e.a. in verhouding te zien: het gaat in die mammoettankers om een hoeveelheid olie die 20% vertegenwoordigt van het dagelijkse wereldwijde verbruik aan olie (althans in 'normale tijden').......
Voor de kust van Singapore liggen zelfs honderden olietankers voor anker....*
Het volgende artikel komt van Bloomberg:
Oil Tankers Surround California With Nowhere to Unload
By Robert Tuttle21 april 2020 23:31 CEST Updated on 22 april 2020 23:06 CEST
- Total of 20 million barrels of oil floats off U.S. West Coast
- Tankers float off coast as
fuel demand plummets amid virus
Photographer: Michael Heiman/Getty Images North America
Almost three dozen ships -- scattered in waters from Long Beach to the San Francisco Bay -- are mostly acting as floating storage for oil that’s going unused as the coronavirus pandemic shutters businesses and takes drivers off the road. Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s (MPC) refinery in Martinez, California, has been idled and others, including Chevron Corp.’s El Segundo refinery, have curtailed crude processing as the state orders residents to stay at home.
The more than 20 million barrels of crude is the highest volume of crude to ever float off the West Coast at one time, according to Paris-based Kpler SAS, which tracks tanker traffic.
About three quarters of those tankers are holding oil in storage, meaning they have been floating steadily for seven days, also a record.
Storage has become increasingly scarce as a growing supply glut collides with collapsing fuel demand. As traditional tanks have filled, oil has been pushed onto tankers to float off Singapore, the U.S. Gulf Coast and, now, the U.S. West Coast.
The slowdown in oil deliveries into California was already becoming evident last quarter, when 38.8 million barrels of crude was delivered into Long Beach, down from 42 million barrels a year earlier, according to Port of Long Beach data.
The Seaexpress, a tanker that normally carries fuel, is currently holding crude for Royal Dutch Shell Plc. for at least a month in Puget Sound, Washington, after data on the ships draft indicated it loaded up at the company’s Anacortes refinery.
* Zie (een meer uitgebreid artikel van Zero Hedge): '"We Are Moving Into The End-Game": 27 Tankers Anchored Off California, Hundreds Off Singapore As Oil Industry Shuts Down'
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