Oil Refiners Pay Huge Premiums to Replace Middle East Crude

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Oil refineries are paying increasingly huge premiums to snap up particular types of crude they need to replace missing cargoes from the Middle East, in a sign of how the Iran war is causing convulsions across the global market.

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Original article published by Bloomberg on March 20, 2026.
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