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Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High

Source
Rigzone
Source link
https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/diesel_margins_top_100_a_barrel_to_reach_record_high-19-aug-2026-184413-article?rss=true
Published
2026-08-19 20:00:01
Discovered by ProcIntel
2026-08-20 00:14:37
Category
Commodities & Raw Materials
Geography
Global
Organisations
Review status
Pending
Record type
REAL

Summary

The margin for making diesel from crude oil in the U.S. has soared to more than $100 a barrel.

Procurement Relevance Gate

PASS — score 22.8/100 — evaluated 2026-08-20 00:14:37
Passed on: commodity_or_input_impact, geographic_exposure (score 22.8/100, threshold 20.0).
  • commodity_or_input_impact (weight 12) — matched on "oil"
  • geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"

Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Initial Significance
1 · Low (18.0/100)
Initial Confidence
2 · Low (31.5/100)
Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
Partial
Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth

Initial Significance Low (18.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (31.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).

  • No likely Event type matched; a low contextual baseline was applied.
  • Entity Criticality data quality warning: all_linked_entities_data_insufficient.
  • no matched Event type
  • no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any)
  • no actor content-derived geography
  • single source only
  • Entities were mentioned as context or document attribution rather than as actors in the reported development, so they did not increase Initial Confidence.
  • Only source-level geography metadata was available.
  • Source metadata did not contribute to Initial Confidence.

Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-20 00:14:37.