Real-time visibility into global crude oil, refined product, and petrochemical trade
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- Slice flows by commodity, grade, vessel, region, port, installation, and time range to isolate exactly the market you're watching
- Map cargo movements across trade routes, export hubs, and terminals, or switch to table view for detailed trade-level analysis
- Visualise seasonal patterns and year-on-year trends with dedicated seasonal charts and 5-year YoY comparisons
- Move from high-level regional trends to individual cargo detail in a single workspace
- Track crude oil price movements with real-time crude oil price analysis, benchmarked against Brent, WTI, and Dubai daily settlements
- Access crude oil price forecasts built on cargo, flow, and inventory signals, not just exchange data
- Follow the crude oil outlook across 500+ crude grades, from major benchmarks to niche regional streams
- Identify the buyers, sellers, exporters, and importers behind individual trades
- Track trade flows between producing and consuming regions, broken down by commodity and grade
- Spot shifts in import and export patterns at the country, company, and regional level before they become consensus
- Track global volumes of crude, refined products, and petrochemicals currently in transit by region and commodity
- Monitor floating storage to identify supply build-ups, delayed discharge activity, and emerging inventory trends
- Analyse how on-water volumes evolve over time to anticipate market tightness or oversupply
- Analyse flows across hundreds of crude grades, from major benchmarks to niche regional streams
- Easy API integration. Track quality characteristics to monitor sweet/sour and light/heavy trade dynamics
- Follow how specific grades move across trade routes and into import markets over time
- Run crude oil supply and demand analysis by region and grade, combining production, floating storage, and refinery intake data
- Monitor crude inventory data across onshore tanks and floating storage to catch builds and draws before they hit official reports
- Track global crude oil supply and demand shifts days or weeks ahead of monthly EIA, IEA, and OPEC reports, using real-time cargo tracking
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FAQ
Crude oil supply and demand analysis compares how much crude is being produced, stored, and exported against how much is being consumed and refined, to identify whether a market is tightening or loosening - by region and by grade. It combines supply-side data (production, floating storage, export flows) with demand-side data (refinery intake, import flows, utilization rates) to build a real-time balance. Unlike monthly reports from bodies like the EIA or IEA, cargo and vessel-tracking data lets you see these shifts days or weeks before they appear in official statistics.
Crude inventory data tracks how much crude oil is held in storage - onshore tanks and floating storage on tankers - at a given point in time. Rising inventories typically signal oversupply, falling inventories signal tightening demand.
At a global level, supply and demand is tracked by aggregating production, floating storage, and refinery/import data across every major producing and consuming region, so a "balanced" global market can still be checked for regional imbalances - for example, a tight Atlantic Basin alongside an oversupplied Asia.
It's the process of monitoring and forecasting oil prices by combining real-time physical market data — trade flows, inventories, and production activity — with fundamentals analysis, rather than relying on delayed surveys or self-reported statistics.
