The Force Awakens
18 Dec 2015: U.S. crude oil exports will change the oil and tanker market. In the highly unlikely scenario…
Will Lifting Sanctions Sanction Liftings?
11 Dec 2015: The impact on the tanker market of lifting Iranian sanctions. It doesn’t look like the world…
The Long and Short of Oil Supply
4 Dec 2015: Global crude oil production has increased over the last year, even though prices have declined significantly over…
And Then There Were Two . . .
20 Nov 2015: Currently, Canada produces a total of about 4 million barrels of crude oil per day (Mb/d)….
December (de)Stockings
13 Nov 2015: As the end of the year approaches, companies are looking at their financial performance and their balance…
Pacific Promise
06 Nov 2015: Refining capacity in Asia has been growing rapidly for many years. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of…
中国 , The Middle Kingdom Opens Up
30-Oct-2015: 中国 , The Middle Kingdom Opens Up – Since the early 2000’s, China developed into an important player in the…
Reading the Tea Leaves
23 Oct 2015: Another round of oil demand growth projections. This is the time of the year that most investment…
Battle of the Benchmarks
16 Oct 2015: East Coast Refiners’ Crude Sourcing. Strong growth in U.S. shale oil production in recent years has…
This Time it is Different
9 Oct 2015: The VlCC market is hot again, but for different reasons. Late last week, time charter equivalents (TCE’s),…
