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…
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…
What Slowdown?
19 May 2017: Since the early years of this century, China has been the growth engine of the bulk…
Asia First
12 May 2017: In recent weeks and months, various equity analysts and executives of publicly listed tanker companies have…
The Biggest Losers
5 May 2017: It is usually more pleasant to write about growing business prospects and new trade routes, but…
Rock versus Sand
28 Apr 2017: American shale is back. Production is going from strength to strength on the back of increased…
Brazil is Back
21 Apr 2017: Brazil is South America’s undisputed energy powerhouse. The country is a large energy consumer and producer. It…
Down, But Not Out
7 Apr 2017: In the first three months of 2017, the level and direction of crude exports from the…
Are We There Yet?
31 Mar 2017: The sentiment in the tanker market is pretty depressed at the moment, in particular for crude oil…
Tight Oil Unleashed
24 Mar 2017: In April 2015, U.S. crude oil production reached 9.627 million barrels per day (mb/d). This was…
