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Swarnendu Bhushan

MOSL: OIL & GAS – IMO 2020: Busting the myth!-Diesel cracks may improve

Oil & Gas – IMO 2020: Busting the myth!; Diesel cracks may improve, but overall refining margins still may not

 

  • International Maritime Organization (IMO) has mandated a lower sulfur content of 0.5% in marine fuels, down from 3.5% currently, with effect from January 2020.
  • Various reports suggest that diesel offers the best alternative to high sulfur fuel oil (HSFO) and refineries may not be able to match this increased demand, resulting in spike in diesel cracks, and hence, refining margins.
  • Our research busts this myth. We believe there would be no significant impact on GRMs.

 Replacement demand of 2.6mnbopd in 2020

  • Consumption of diesel as marine fuel is likely to rise from 0.75mnbopd in 2019 to 3.3mnbopd in 2020. This would result in additional demand of 2.6mnbopd of diesel, almost 6x the average annual incremental demand since 2000.
  • Even after knocking off ~1mnbopd of incremental production from new hydrocrackers, cokers and FCCUs globally, we would still need to fulfill 1.6mnbopd of demand. Add to this 0.8mnbopd of demand growth excluding marine.
  • This calls for 90.2% of global capacity utilization, ~4% higher than the maximum utilization witnessed since the data available in BP’s Statistical Reviews.
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