Trade / Value chains / Crude oil → refined products
Value chain · Crude oil → refined products · chain momentum
−8.1%
Wellhead → tanker → refinery → product exports. Latest readings: crude oil output down 4.6%; exporters' tanker shipments down 24.7%; refinery crude intake down 8.1%; refined product exports up 5.1%. Brent crude price: 102.0 US$ per barrel (+50.9% y/y, 2026-09).
Extract−4.6%
Ship−24.7%
Refine−8.1%
Export+5.1%
The chain, stage by stage
Chain momentum: simple average of the stage readings (13 weeks y/y for weekly port data, 3 months y/y for monthly releases). Readings older than 4 months are shown but not scored. Price is context, not scored. Each stage shows its own date.
Flows
Stage momentum, last 2 years
Each stage against a year earlier. When an upstream stage runs ahead of the next one, inventories are building somewhere along the chain.
Routes and chokepoints
Main sea lanes of the chain, annual volume, and the live status of each passage.