Asia has turned to the United States for supplies of gasoline blending components as tanks in Europe are running dry. A rare cargo of mixed aromatics, also known as reformates, set sail from the U.S. East Coast last week and will head to China after topping off in Europe, according to Reuters shipping data and four traders familiar with the matter. The vessel, Yankul Silver, is carrying about 300,000 barrels of reformate and is on its way to Amsterdam. Another vessel from the U.S. Gulf Coast was also seen hauling reformate to Asia, two traders said. Reformates are used to upgrade gasoline produced in refineries to meet increasingly stringent government fuel requirements in China to fight pollution. China has imported large volumes of mixed aromatics in recent weeks due to a supply shortage out of Europe, where the country usually sources this supply. Reformate exports […]