Energy & Commodities mixed · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if a fire strikes Reliance's giant Jamnagar refinery?

A major Jamnagar fire removes the world's largest single-site refinery (~1.4 Mbd), tightening global product markets (gasoline, diesel, jet) far more than crude, which softens as runs fall; the cleaner trade is long product cracks, and the up-leg in flat Brent here is questionable. Rhymes with large unplanned refinery outages (e.g. 2019 Pemex/US events) where cracks spiked but crude eased on lost demand. Transmission: Reliance is a top exporter to Europe and the US East Coast; forward angle: this is a refining-margin event, so a crude-supply-risk root overstates flat-price upside.

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our model probability
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Anchored to measured history 8% · 90% range 0–16% · 40 dated precedents behind it — a wider range means thinner evidence

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The butterfly cascade

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Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a mixed shock. A major fire at Reliance's Jamnagar refining hub removes the world's largest single-site export source. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Oil supply risk ▲ · Diesel ▲ · Gasoline ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.

Methodology. Probability and impact are anchored to history and scored against what actually happens — wins and losses, in public, at Reality Check. Market odds live from Polymarket & Kalshi. By Vikas Singh, Quantitative Strategist. Updated 2026-08-13.