Nearly twenty days (or over 450 hours) after Hurricane Harvey made landfall between Port Aransas and Port O’Connor in Texas, there are a number of signs emerging in our ClipperData that the refinery hub of the U.S. is returning to some semblance of normalcy. Hark, here are but three such examples: Crude waiting offshore is gradually dropping after peaking at the beginning of the week at 31 million barrels – the highest since January. At the start of the week, we saw nearly 50 dirty tankers in the U.S. Gulf, as a backlog built up, ready to deliver to Texas ports as refineries restart. (Click to enlarge) Waterborne crude imports into the U.S. Gulf Coast have averaged 3 million barrels per day for 2017, until recent weeks. Arrivals dropped to close to 1mn bpd in the trading week immediately after Hurricane Harvey’s landfall, before rebounding back above 2mn bpd […]