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Pricing & benchmarksarbitrage

Arbitrage

Buying product in one market and selling in another where the price net of freight is higher.

Arbitrage in physical oil is the practice of moving cargoes between markets where the destination price (net of freight, finance, inspection, and port costs) exceeds the origin price.

The classic east-west arb is driven by Brent-Dubai (EFS). The Gulf-to-East-Africa arb is driven by Arab Heavy vs Dated Brent plus clean VLCC/Suezmax rates.

OilFlow's matching engine computes an arb window per corridor daily in intel snapshots.

Related: EFS, Freight, Laycan.

See also

efsfreightlaycan

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