Outage reduced availability of US supplies of power plant, home heating fuel to global markets.

Oil futures came under pressure amid a continued rally in the dollar.

Traders said that the active replenishing of barge cargoes out of terminals over the past week was likely to have reduced residual stocks in Singapore, though low sulfur fuel oil inventories remain ample.

Supply concerns in the US Gulf of Mexico are easing as oil production facilities resume operations after Hurricane Ida led to 90% of the USGC oil production being shut-in.

In the gasoil market, overall heating oil demand remains subdued, with little expectation of a rebound in demand until October.

Industry sources that Platts spoke with expect barging schedules at the two ports to tighten in the near term as the ports are congested in the run up to China's National Day holidays over Oct. 1-7.

The city-port has already launched a Maritime GreenFuture Fund to create ecosystems for trials and test-bedding of low-carbon technologies, and has recently also established a Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonization.

"The monsoon season will end and asphalt demand for road construction will restart. Then domestic demand [demand for heavy distillates] increases," a source at the refinery said.