Scrapping To The Rescue?
2 Feb 2018;
The tanker market has started 2018 in the doldrums. One of the main reasons for the depressed…
Scrapping To The Rescue?
2 Feb 2018;
The tanker market has started 2018 in the doldrums. One of the main reasons for the depressed…
RIN-sanity Returns
26 Jan 2018;
Last weekend, Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES), the largest oil refinery on the U.S. East Coast, filed for…
Non OPEC Non US: No Problem
19 Jan 2018;
Over the last couple of years, two topics have dominated the oil (and by extension the tanker)…
(Not So) Happy New Year!
12 Jan 2018;
Shipowners typically look forward to the winter. As the weather gets colder, the tanker market starts to…
Start-up of Three New Projects Mean More Supply in 2018
12 January 2018:
New projects in Russia, the US and Cameroon were expected to start up during the final…
Cheniere Energy Taking Growing Share of Global Market
12 January 2018:
With four liquefaction trains now online and three others more than 70% complete, Cheniere Energy says it…
China Seeks More Term Supply
12 January 2018:
China could sign more import contracts in the next few months with some of the contracts…
Spot The Difference
Top Reported Dirty Spot Charterers for 2017
Every year Poten ranks the dirty spot charterers to see who tops the…
Fixing Forties
22 Dec 2017;
On Monday 11 December, the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) in the North Sea was closed for repairs. …