Tanker Opinions

24 Mar 2017:  In April 2015, U.S. crude oil production reached 9.627 million barrels per day (mb/d).  This was…

17 Mar 2017:  Global VLCC trades are dominated by two regions: exports are primarily coming from the countries around…

10 Mar 2017: Earlier this week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) published their annual medium term oil market outlook,…

3 Mar 2017:  Indonesia has attracted significant attention in the energy markets lately.  This week, King Salman bin Abdulaziz…

23 Feb 2017:  Long Range 1 (LR1) and Long Range 2 (LR2) product carriers are the coated version of…

17 Feb 2017: Historically, the transatlantic product trade has been a significant source of employment for product tankers.  The…

10 Feb 2017: It appears that the whole world (at least the people that are interested in oil supply…

3 Feb 2017: On January 24, in his first week in office, President Trump issued several memos and an…

27-Jan-2017:  In 2016, global dirty (crude and dirty products) Aframax ton-mile demand increased by 1.1% compared to 2015 while…

19 Jan 2017:  We recently updated the age profile statistics for the tanker fleet.  At first glance, this is…