effect of the widened Crude premium over Dubai, as well as the lowered oil product spread over crude oil price. There was an Inventory Loss of THB 70 million, and GRM hedging loss. Marketing Business Group
remains high, and gross refinery margin improved from the increase of crack spread for all products, along with a record of inventory gain from rising average crude oil price during the quarter. Marketing
still affected by the oil price volatility in the global market. Despite the crude oil price recovery, the average crack spread between finished product and referenced crude oil price continues to decline
spread (DTD/DB), and the improvement of Fuel Oil / Dubai (FO/DB) crack spread. However, due to the crude price drop in this quarter, there was an inventory loss of THB 1,010 million, leading to an EBITDA
2.87 $/BBL, the refining margin still remains on the low side due to the crack spread of finished product and reference crude oil price declining significantly. A result of severe drop in demand for fuel
the COVID-19 outbreak result of crude premium to adjust downward with significance. Despite the finished product and reference crude price crack spread for most products had been declining continuously
reduced Market GRM, following the decline in refinery production volume due to the TAM, as well as a decrease in average Gasoline/Dubai crack spread and Fuel oil/Dubai crack spread, and the rise in crude
spread between finished product and crude oil in every product category, and from the higher average crude oil price; resulting in an Inventory Gain of THB 834 million, exceeding 2016’s. Moreover, there
Brent and Dubai spread (DTD/DB) in Q4/2019 on average increased by 0.30 $/BBL when compared to Q3/2019, due to the support received from the mounting demand of light crude in Asia, to prep for the
USD 12.82 per barrel in Q2/2018; the decline was due to the retracting finished product and crude oil crack spread for most products. Moreover, refinery business incurred an inventory loss of THB 107