Balance of Trade
April 30, 2021
Changing trade patterns impact West Coast VLCC employment
Historically, the global VLCC trade has been dominated by large…
Draining the Oil Stocks
April 23, 2021
Will falling oil inventories drive up tanker rates?
When Covid-19 started to spread around the world in the…
Guyana Revisted
April 16, 2021
A welcome new addition to the crude oil export markets
In October 2019, we wrote a Weekly…
Back to the Negotiating Table
April 9, 2021
Would more Iranian crude exports help the tanker market?
OPEC+ has announced that it will gradually increase production…
LNG Finance in World Markets: Poten LNG Top Lenders
LNG Finance in World Markets
March 2021
Japanese banks took the top three…
LNG in World Markets: LNG Funding Hit New High in 2020, Unconstrained by Pandemic
LNG in World Market
March 2021
LNG funding activity soared to…
LNG Market Outlook: LNG unaffected by trade dispute between Australia/China
June 2021
LNG Market Outlook
Chinese-Australian trade tensions have surfaced recently with China imposing sanctions on Australian coal imports, among other…
LNG Market Outlook: European storage remains low, forecast lowered for 2H 2021
August 2021
LNG Market Outlook
The past month has not seen European natural…
LNG Market Outlook: Price high, volumes steady heading into autumn
September 2021
LNG Market Outlook
In the first half of September, LNG export…
LNG Market Outlook: Tight market result of high demand colliding with supply issues
July 2021
LNG Market Outlook
Demand was high for the first six months of 2021, up 10 MMt from the same…