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.
Frequently asked
- What does Arbitrage mean in oil and commodity trading?
- Buying product in one market and selling in another where the price net of freight is higher.
- How do I check a counterparty that uses Arbitrage in a deal?
- The term itself is not enough to clear or condemn a deal. What matters is the counterparty behind the pitch. Screen that name for free against OilFlow's first-party fraud-cluster corpus in seconds, and confirm identity documents and banking details independently before you transact.
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