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Shell's refining margins surge amid energy market volatility

Rank
Running
19h
Updated
11h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
7
Regions
3
Countries
5
Languages
3

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Bloomberg United States · English 7 Oct, 06:12 UTC

The earliest of 5 English reports

Read it also in Nederlands (1) · Português (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 20 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Bloomberg, 7 Oct, 06:12 UTC.
  2. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 7 Oct, 06:12 UTC.
  3. Second country: Malaysia, with Free Malaysia Today.
  4. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Free Malaysia Today.
  5. Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

21 of 21 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

43%14%43%

  • Americas 3 outlets · 2 countries · 43%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • Europe 3 outlets · 2 countries · 43%

First movers

  1. Bloomberg 7 Oct, 06:12 UTC
  2. Rigzone +59m
  3. Free Malaysia Today +1h 14m
  4. The Guardian +2h 18m
  5. OilPrice.com +5h 17m

Latest arrivals

  1. NU.nl 7 Oct, 14:37 UTC
  2. CNN Brasil 7 Oct, 13:41 UTC
  3. OilPrice.com 7 Oct, 11:30 UTC
  4. The Guardian 7 Oct, 08:30 UTC
  5. Free Malaysia Today 7 Oct, 07:26 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 5 countries, across 3 regions, 2 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Brazil, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 2: Netherlands, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Dutch, Portuguese.
Timeline
Earliest article Bloomberg, 7 Oct 2026, 06:12 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 06:40 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 14:37 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Energy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.61, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
7 Oct 2026 222 4.01 7 5 7 5 4.6

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Started 7 Oct, 06:40 UTC · Updated 14:37 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Americas 3 outlets

  • CNN Brasil Brazil 7 Oct, 13:41 UTC
    Shell vê margem de refino disparar para recorde no 3º tri em meio a guerra
  • Rigzone United States 7 Oct, 07:11 UTC
    Shell Expects Strong Trading Results for Q3
  • Bloomberg United States 7 Oct, 06:12 UTC
    Shell Sees Strong Oil and Gas Trading as War Drives Price Swings

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 7 Oct, 07:26 UTC
    Shell sees refining margins hitting record high in third quarter

Europe 3 outlets

  • NU.nl Netherlands 7 Oct, 14:37 UTC
    Shell profiteert van bijna verdubbelde marges op verwerking van ruwe olie
  • OilPrice.com United Kingdom 7 Oct, 11:30 UTC
    Shell’s Refining Margin Jumps 75% as Fuel Supplies Dry Up
  • The Guardian United Kingdom 7 Oct, 08:30 UTC
    Shell refineries forecast to make double the profit from every barrel of fuel
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