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The Officials: Backwardation on borrowed time?

13 October 2025: 16:30 BST

For many weeks, oil market analysts have been waving the bearish banner, yet markets have defied them. Even OPEC have turned a bit more bearish in their most recent update, (read more on the next page). Time spread structure, although it has softened, remains backwardated in the prompt. At least for now. We are in fact starting to get a glimmer of contango permeating the down the back of the curve

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