Refining, Petrochemicals Update - Gas Price Surge Boosts GRMs, But Indian GRMs Likely To Lag: ICICI Securities

Refining, Petrochemicals Update - Gas Price Surge Boosts GRMs, But Indian GRMs Likely To Lag: ICICI Securities

Pipework and refining towers at an oil refinery. (Photographer: Bartek Sadowski/Bloomberg)

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Reuters’ Singapore GRM is up 2.2 times from $3.2/barrel of oil in August 2021 to $6.9/bbl in October 2021-to-date driven mainly by rise in diesel, jet fuel and fuel oil cracks.

Transportation fuel cracks are at 21-23 month highs. Cracks rise is driven by:

  1. switch to liquid fuels from gas due to much higher gas prices;

  2. fall in refinery utilisation in China; and

  3. U.S. refinery closures due to hurricane Ida.

However, we estimate gross refining margin of Reliance Industries Ltd. to be lower than Singapore GRM in Oct-21-to-date mainly due to petcoke (produced instead of fuel oil) cracks being sharply lower than fuel oil cracks.

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