Big Remains Beautiful
17 Mar 2017: Global VLCC trades are dominated by two regions: exports are primarily coming from the countries around…
Looking Into IEA’s Crystal Ball
10 Mar 2017: Earlier this week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) published their annual medium term oil market outlook,…
Pacific Promise
3 Mar 2017: Indonesia has attracted significant attention in the energy markets lately. This week, King Salman bin Abdulaziz…
Large Tankers Are Cleaning Up Their Act
23 Feb 2017: Long Range 1 (LR1) and Long Range 2 (LR2) product carriers are the coated version of…
Transatlantic Oil Swap
17 Feb 2017: Historically, the transatlantic product trade has been a significant source of employment for product tankers. The…
OPEC Cuts Down Tanker Demand
10 Feb 2017: It appears that the whole world (at least the people that are interested in oil supply…
Pipe Dreams Re-Awakening
3 Feb 2017: On January 24, in his first week in office, President Trump issued several memos and an…
Afra-Maxed Out?
27-Jan-2017: In 2016, global dirty (crude and dirty products) Aframax ton-mile demand increased by 1.1% compared to 2015 while…
Tanker Supply Cloud Has A Silver Lining
19 Jan 2017: We recently updated the age profile statistics for the tanker fleet. At first glance, this is…
Deal … Or No Deal?
12 Jan 2017: One year ago, the United Nations lifted its sanctions against Iran after the International Atomic Energy…
