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PEARL12 KC-135R Tanker coming out of the South China Sea and heading back to Okinawa. Wasn't there by itself…..
Some USAF tanker activity in Japan heading north and US Navy shuttle west:
PEARL73 KC-135R tanker n
MOJO12 Beech Huron C-12J (cargo and passenger airlift) n
RCH073 DC-10 Tanker on ground
RCH063 DC-10 tanker inbound from Travis AFB
PEARL74 KC-135R Tanker n
CNV7497 US Navy Beechcraft C-12F west
KANTO20 21 23 C-130 hercules (these are usually up and not mentioned but included with the other activity)
lots of Pilatus training AC up
3 Blackhawks out from Ft. Bliss, TX. 1620824 hugging the border west of El Paso. R20148 as back-up and R0720041 on stand-by to the east.
Only mentioned due to the Blackhawk nailed to the border area
Oil drops 11%, extending Monday’s 25% decline
Oil prices slid 11% during overnight trading, extending Monday’s nearly 25% decline on ongoing fears that storage around the world is rapidly filling.
West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark, slid 11.03%, or $1.41, to trade at $11.37 per barrel, while international benchmark Brent crude traded 2.85% lower at $19.42 per barrel. On Monday, WTI fell 24.56%, or $4.16, to settle at $12.78 per barrel. International benchmark Brent crude fell 6.76% to settle at $19.99. Each contract is coming off its eighth week of losses in nine weeks. Prices were also pressured on Monday after the United States Oil Fund, which trades under the ticker ‘USO’ and is popular with retail investors, said it would sell all of its contracts for June delivery beginning Monday, in favor of longer-term contracts. As demand drops more and more producers have announced production cuts. But some believe it won’t be fast enough to combat the unprecedented fall-off in demand from the pandemic.
Earlier in April, OPEC and its oil-producing allies agreed to a record production cut that will take 9.7 million barrels per day off the market beginning Friday, while Exxon and Chevron are among the U.S.-based companies that have scaled back operations.
WTI and Brent are both on pace for their fourth straight month of losses for the first time since 2017.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/27/oil-news-wti-crude-brent-prices-today.html
this will continue to habben as the contracts will get pushed to the next expiring month and instead of layering them across the next few months they all seem to follow the mantra that it will be back up in price "next month"-good luck fuckers-it won't be
SAM636 G5 from Shaw AFB, SC over blighty-origin JBA
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