Yahoo Finance Shell (SHEL) Expects Pre-Pandemic Aviation Fuel Demand by 2024
The head of aviation at Shell plc SHEL recently stated that the company anticipates the global demand for aviation fuel to completely bounce back to the pre-COVID levels of 300 million metric tons per year in the next couple of years.
Jan Toschka, Shell’s Aviation President, in an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of the 38th Asia Pacific Petroleum Energy Conference mentioned that demand in the United States has retrieved and is on par with its 2019 level. He added that Europe's consumption has recovered to more than 80% and is in shape for full recovery in the coming year.
"Asia has been a bit more of a bumpy road with markets opening up and closing down but mostly we expect Asia in particular, in the next year, to come back, but it might take another year before we see the full potential of the market," Toschka added.
Moreover, with the European Union's sanctions on Russian oil products following Moscow’s military actions in Ukraine, the supply of jet fuel has tightened in the continent, causing the region to buy more fuel from the United States, China, India and the Middle East. “Shipping and rail and all kinds of distribution are under more stress now with this new kind of routing (of trade),” he ended.
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BP plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the world's seven oil and gas supermajors. It is a vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and extraction, refining, distribution and marketing, power generation, and trading.
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