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…
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. …
Viva Mexico!
15 Dec 2017;
In December 2013, Mexico made the necessary changes to its constitution to allow a widespread reform of…
Fuel For Thought
8 Dec 2017;
As we are approaching the end of 2017, a year most tanker owners would probably rather forget…
No Surprise From Opec
1 Dec 2017;
To nobody’s surprise, OPEC extended its oil production cuts on November 30. The original cuts, which were…
Default Looming In Venezuela
17 Nov 2017;
On Monday, November 13, Standard & Poor’s (S&P), one of the world’s leading credit rating agencies, lowered…
