Saudis May Hike Oil Price to Record as War Reroutes Flows
- Aramco seen increasing Arab Light selling price to Asia by $5
- OSP rise expected as some buyers shun cargoes from Russia
An employee looks out over oil transport pipelines at the Saudi Aramco Ras Tanura oil refinery, Saudi Arabia.
Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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Saudi Arabia, the largest oil exporter, will likely boost pricing of its main crude variety to a record as the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reverberates through markets more than a month after the assault.
Saudi Aramco may raise the official selling price of its key Arab Light crude by $5 a barrel to Asia for May-loading cargoes, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of five refiners and traders. That would increase the overall differential to $9.95 above the Oman-Dubai benchmark, which would be the widest since Bloomberg began compiling the data in 2000.