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Kanan Mehra
Oil Market Analyst
ClipperData

Kanan is an Oil Market Analyst at ClipperData. She specializes in global refined products markets, with a focus on fundamental analysis to produce our weekly deliverables. Kanan holds a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she concentrated on international energy management and policy. She earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, where she studied economics.

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Looks Like We Made It - Colonial Leak's Impact Minimized by Imports, Use of Line 2

Author Kanan Mehra

The increase in waterborne flows to the East Coast in response to the recent Colonial Pipeline outage illustrated the flexibility of supply in the U.S. motor gasoline market. At the same time, the lack of a lasting impact from the loss of 8.3 million barrels of gasoline to a key U.S. demand region highlighted the degree of oversupply in the market. Today we look at how waterborne flows helped to mitigate the effects of the Colonial Pipeline outage, and how flexibility in the East Coast motor gasoline market enabled it to handle unexpected supply constraints with minimal disruption.