Pricing a Missed Position
Trans-Atlantic time charter equivalent (TCE) rates for clean MR vessels for most of this year were noticeably weaker than…
Oil Price Rise: Beyond the Usual Suspects
One of the biggest energy stories of the decade is the rise in oil prices. West Texas Intermediate, the…
Energizing the Last Thirty Years
This week the Energy Information Administration (EIA) threw a thirtieth birthday and invited 1,600 of their closest friends from…
A Broken Record
On Tuesday April 1st, also known as April Fool’s Day, the United States House of Representatives’ Select Committee on…
Dieselizing the USA
As US motorists continue to cope with their gasoline addiction, some are being lured to a different designer fuel…
Bill Me Later
The past couple of weeks have been quite tumultuous in the United States financial markets. The wild ride was…
Europe: LNG Terminal Developers Face Mounting Costs
Import terminals in northern Europe and the Mediterranean have provided a fresh round of industry cost markers, with the…
Burgeoning Bunkers
The growing industry awareness of air quality and emissions in the world’s ports…
Supremely Safe Sailing
The Alaskan crude oil spill in 1989 that spawned the era of double-hulled tankers has also embroiled ExxonMobil in…
ExxonMobil Shifts Import Focus to U.S. Northeast
This article appeared in Poten & Partners monthly publication LNG in World Markets. Reference LNG and natural gas data…