According to WPB, the global physical oil market remains substantially tighter than headline futures prices suggest, with Middle East crude exports s...
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According to WPB, the United Arab Emirates is accelerating the expansion of ports, pipelines and alternative trade corridors outside the Strait of Ho...
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Global bitumen markets entered the first week of September with a sharply divided regional pattern. Iranian 60/70 prices moved sharply lower, with dr...
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According to WPB, OPEC+ has formally halted further production increases for October, leaving required output unchanged as disruptions to Middle East...
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According to WPB, a tightening global fuel-oil market is creating a new source of cost pressure for bitumen shipping as refinery disruptions, reduced...
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According to WPB, maritime risk in the Strait of Hormuz has escalated further after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said it targeted ...
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According to WPB, India’s road sector is approaching a potentially difficult post-monsoon period as high bitumen prices and disrupted availability ...
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According to WPB, South Korea is reviewing practical measures to support freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, including options that c...
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According to WPB, Iranian crude loadings have fallen to approximately 260,000 barrels per day in the current September period, providing one of the c...
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According to WPB, South Africa’s Natref refinery has reported an operational disruption that affected refinery production and product supply, placi...
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According to WPB, Iranian bitumen exporters need more than another warning about the Strait of Hormuz. They need a second export architecture that ca...
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According to WPB, Jordan’s Aqaba port is emerging as a working alternative trade corridor for Iraq as disruption in the Strait of Hormuz redirects ...
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According to WPB, a new wave of U.S. military strikes across southern Iran has added another layer of execution risk for Iranian bitumen exports afte...
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According to WPB, Iran’s president has said the country’s exports and imports have fallen by nearly 35% under the combined pressure of U.S. sanct...
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According to WPB, a new U.S. sanctions waiver has extended the operating window for Serbia’s NIS through September 30, 2026, allowing crude oil imp...
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Middle East pricing turned firmer at the producer level in Week 4. Iran rose by roughly $10–15/MT across packed 60/70 grades and Iraq gained about ...
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According to WPB, Puma Energy’s Bitumen segment recorded a 65% quarter-on-quarter increase in margins in the second quarter of 2026, providing a ra...
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According to WPB, Russia’s bitumen supply system has been hit by another direct refinery disruption after the Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refin...
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According to WPB, preliminary shipping data published on August 26, 2026 show that physical traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains far from nor...
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According to WPB, the global oil market has entered a more dangerous phase in which disruption is no longer concentrated around a single producer, re...
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