- Oil is trading higher and heading for a second consecutive weekly gain
- Prices traded higher earlier in the week but gave up much of the gains over the past two days
- Russian refining throughput falls to ten-month low (BBG)
- Russian refineries processed 5.03 MMBbl/d from March 14 to 20, down more than 400 MBbl/d from the average of the first two weeks of the month
- Recent attacks on Russian refineries by Ukrainian drones have reduced the country’s refining capacity by about 11%
- The reduced refining capacity should lead to higher crude exports from Russia, which could be a bearish factor for global crude prices