Heating Oil Tumbles to 1-Moth Low

2025-11-25 15:37 By Felipe Alarcon 1 min. read

US heating oil futures plunged toward $2.33 per gallon to one-month lows as a sharp drop in crude feedstock costs compounded with easing concerns about how tight the distillate complex really is.

Crude prices tumbled after intensive diplomacy around a reworked US-backed Ukraine peace framework and parallel US–Russia contacts increased the odds that some wartime export constraints on Russian barrels could be relaxed, a development that would add future crude and refined flows to markets already tilting toward looser balances.

At the same time US distillate stocks surprised with a roughly 171,000 barrel build in the week to November 14th, which eased worries about a near-term product shortfall and reduced the urgency for aggressive restocking.

Weather provided only limited support as NOAA forecasts point to pockets of below-normal temperatures across parts of the US into early December, but the cold is spatially uneven and too limited to offset the supply driven setback.



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