Gasoline demand, however, continued to land under 9 million barrels a day for a sixth straight week, below what is typical heading into the summer driving season
It is the second largest diesel exporter after the USA. Before the Ukraine war, Russia exported around 2.8 million barrels per day of oil products
Consumer behavior shows a collision of old and new trends that may keep fuel consumption surging for a while
Brent crude futures rose 32 cents, or 0.4%, to $72.58 a barrel at 0002 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures gained 23 cents, or 0.3%, to $67.94 a barrel.
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The decline to date has only partly reversed a prolonged run-up in gas prices, which accelerated after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February and continues to roil consumers.
The prospect of resuming Iranian crude supply and recession fears, along with consecutive weekly builds at the US crude oil storage hub, easing gasoline demand
Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the continued decline comes as crude oil costs also remain low.
AAA said the national average for a gallon of regular was $3.99 on Thursday.
Brent crude futures were down $2.35, or 2.4 percent, at $98.19 a barrel by 11:09 a.m. ET (1509 GMT).
West Texas Intermediate crude futures fell 88 cents, or 0.9 per cent, to $99.00 a barrel following a 1.9 per cent drop on Wednesday.
The step offers relief for top fuel exporter Reliance Industries and top crude explorer Oil & Natural Gas Corp.
The three biggest retailers sold 1.28 million tons of gasoline during July 1-15, down about 8% from the corresponding period in June, according to refinery officials with knowledge of the matter.
The three biggest retailers sold 1.28 million tons of gasoline during July 1-15, down about 8 percent from the corresponding period in June, according to refinery officials with knowledge of the matter.
In a tweet on Saturday, Biden said, "this is a time of war and global peril," and demanded the companies lower gasoline prices, which have soared to about $5 a gallon in many parts of the country.
The increase of 648,000 barrels per day in August leaves the world thirsty for oil as it rebounds from the COVID-19 pandemic and runs up against the inability of the 23-member OPEC+ alliance to meet its production quotas.
Gasoline imports rose to about 13,000 barrels a day in the first half of June, a seven-month high, according to Vortexa Ltd. Diesel imports, meanwhile, are set to surge to the highest since February 2020 at about 48,000 barrels a day, tenders by Indian Oil Corp. and Bharat Petroleum Corp., as well as Vortexa figures show.
According to two sources briefed on the decision, the Biden administration is expected to hike ethanol blending regulations for 2021 above the number it requested in December to correspond with U.S. consumption.
World fuel demand has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, but the combination of pandemic closures, sanctions on Russia and export quotas in China are straining refiners' ability to meet demand.
Most gasoline sold in the U.S. is blended with 10% ethanol. The Environmental Protection Agency will issue an emergency waiver to allow widespread sale of 15% ethanol blend that is usually prohibited between June 1 and Sept. 15 because of concerns that it adds to smog in high temperatures.
State refiners' average daily sales of gasoline and gasoil were 86,850 tonnes and 227,650 tonnes respectively, 14.2% and 5% higher than the pre-pandemic levels of March 2019, preliminary sales data shows.
The initiative, aimed at more efficient energy use, coincides with an ambitious reform plan to boost sources of revenue and wean the world's top crude exporter away from oil.
BPCL will shut a 100,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) crude unit for a month from July 29 and the CCR from August 6 at its 190,000-bpd Kochi refinery in Southern India, sources with knowledge of the plan said.
Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, totalled 17.36 million tonnes, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the oil ministry showed.
It will likely offer two naphtha cargoes per month from Kochi, compared with the current two cargoes per three months, after the completion of the expansion, one of the sources close to the matter said.