Pertamina Seeks to Meet Gas Demand for Power Generation, Industrials
June 2017: Indonesian buyer Pertamina is negotiating for long-term supply deals beginning after 2020 to meet gas demand from the…
Raising the Roof: How High Can Spot Charter Rates Go?
5 June 2017: “Over the past two weeks our LNG shipping opinions have addressed the increased residual value risk…
U.S. Driving Season(ality)
2 Jun 2017: This week’s Memorial Day unofficially kicked off the annual U.S. summer driving season which typically ends…
LNG Shipping as a Commodity
30 May 2017: Last week’s opinion (22-May-17: “Assessing Residual Value”) discussed different LNG vessel valuation methodologies in a market with…
More Of The Same From OPEC
26 May 2017: As most people expected, OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries extended its oil production cuts…
Assessing Residual Value
22 May 2017: Valuations are not straight forward in the LNG shipping industry, whether for individual vessels or entire companies….
What Slowdown?
19 May 2017: Since the early years of this century, China has been the growth engine of the bulk…
Chinese Demand Growth
15 May 2017: Last week, the United States and China reached a preliminary 10-point trade agreement which included a statement…
Asia First
12 May 2017: In recent weeks and months, various equity analysts and executives of publicly listed tanker companies have…
Structural vs Spot Availability
8 May 2017: “As mentioned in a recent opinion, the global LNG trade grew by approximately 12% year-on-year during…
