IEA members agreed Thursday to speed up the last 100 million barrels of their emergency release, including more than 20 million of diesel. US retail diesel was $6.32 a gallon that day, more than 70% above a year earlier, according to AAA.
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Chevron's chief executive says the oil buffers that absorbed the Iran war are drained
Chevron CEO Mike Wirth says the inventories and emergency reserves that absorbed the Iran war shock are drained. The IEA expects diesel to stay tight well into 2027, so a budget that assumes early relief runs against both.
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Brent rose to $101.80 on Wednesday after a Gulf storm curtailed 185,120 barrels a day of US offshore crude and Houthi strikes damaged two Saudi airports. That loss is small beside Middle East shut-ins, so the bigger fourth-quarter cost risk runs through Gulf refineries into diesel.
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Diesel at $6.53 a gallon is a political problem for Trump. The remedy under discussion would hold a record 1.6 million barrels a day at home, in a market where the world price still sets the US price.
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Kyiv's 51% refinery claim runs well ahead of the IEA's 30% diesel decline
Ukraine says its strikes have knocked out 51% of Russia's oil refining capacity, a claim that could not be independently verified. IEA figures point to a smaller loss that Russia covers by postponing maintenance and keeping diesel at home.
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G7 nations will release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel, front-loading diesel within 20 days and spreading the rest over four months. Russia's export ban and lost Gulf cargoes stay in place, so fuel budgets past that window face the same supply squeeze.
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Brent regains most of its peace-talk selloff after Trump rejects Iran's Hormuz plan
Crude opened Monday higher after President Trump rejected Iran's Hormuz proposal, with December Brent at $98.69 and November WTI at $93.78. Brent has won back 87% of last week's drop and WTI only 44%, held back by talk of a U.S. diesel export ban.
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The request would have Ukraine give up the one pressure point on Moscow it operates without American help. Zelenskyy's answer is a mutual energy ceasefire that would also cover Russian strikes on Ukraine's grid.
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