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U.S. East Coast scrambles for distillates ahead of refiner maintenance

U.S. East Coast fuel suppliers are scrambling for distillate supplies ahead of planned maintenance at two key refineries that are set to further tighten supplies and boost prices in the populous region that already has low inventories ahead of winter.

Russia to deliver second oil cargo to Brazil in September

Russia loaded the second oil cargo for delivery to Brazil in September.

Korean Air introduces Cargo SAF Program

Korean Air will launch a program to use SAF for air cargo operations in cooperation with air cargo customers and forwarders.

Marathon Galveston Bay, Texas, (U.S.) FCC expected to be shut until late this week

The fire-damaged, gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracker at Marathon Petroleum's 593,000 bpd Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, is expected to be shut until late this week.

Several injured in blast at ethanol biofuel plant in Illinois (U.S.)

Several employees were injured at an Archer-Daniels-Midland facility in Decatur, Illinois, after an explosion within its processing complex.

TotalEnergies restarted Port Arthur, Texas (U.S.) refinery coker

TotalEnergies restarted the coker at its 238,000-bpd Port Arthur, Texas refinery - the 150,000-pd ACU-1 crude distillation unit and 60,000-bpd vacuum distillation unit-2.

Brazil's Petrobras to make scheduled stoppage at Regap refinery

Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras will make a scheduled maintenance stoppage at its Gabriel Passos Refinery (Regap) in Minas Gerais state.

Marathon's Galveston Bay, Texas FCC remains shut

The gasoline-producing FCC at Marathon Petroleum's 593,000 bpd Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, remained shut.

Russia ships first oil cargo to Brazil as it seeks to diversify buyers

Russia is shipping its first crude oil cargo to Brazil, as it seeks to diversify its list of buyers, which has been drastically limited by U.S. and EU sanctions.

U.S. says it disrupts illicit oil shipment by Iran's IRGC, seizes contraband crude

The U.S. said it has halted a multi-million dollar shipment of crude oil by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps being shipped in violation of sanctions against Iran, and seized more than 980,000 barrels of contraband crude oil.