
According to the expert, the fuel shortage on the market may continue in the coming months and into the winter.
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The announcement was made at the Energy Intelligence Forum conference in London.
The head of commodity trader Vitol, Russell Hardy, said that oil reserves in the West have been depleted.
Hardy believes fuel shortages in the market are likely to continue in the coming months and as winter approaches.
Oil reserves in the West are depleted, and the situation with fuel shortages may continue in the run-up to winter, said the head of commodity trader Vitol, Russell Hardy.
“There are no more reserves (of oil - ed.) in the West that could be used. We have already used up the existing reserves,” Bloomberg quotes Hardy as saying at the Energy Intelligence Forum conference in London.
The head of Vitol also said that there will likely remain a shortage in the fuel market in the coming months.

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