A 26-mile-long line of idled oil tankers, enough to blockade the English Channel, are firing up their engines and jockeying for position in a race to cash in on the bone-chilling deep-freeze plaguing the North America, Europe, and Asia.
The supertankers, each of which can hold over 2 million barrels of oil, are steaming "all ahead full" to deliver their stores of crude, heating oil and other distillates to the United States.
Their clients - which include several huge Wall Street investment firms - are eager to unwind what's become known as the oil storage trade.
Tags: Commodities, Contango Effect, Crude Oil, Energy, Exxon, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Oil, Oil Prices, Royal Dutch Shell, Valero Energy
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