Breakup as Backup
15 Jan 2016: What is the scrapping potential of the crude fleet?
Tanker owners are currently doing fairly well, certainly compared…
No Changes At The Top
08 Jan 2016: Top Reported Dirty Spot Charterers for 2015 When reviewing our latest rankings, nobody will be surprised…
Santa Came Early This Year
31 Dec 2015: As 2015 draws to a close and the Worldscale Organisation published the new 2016 Flat Rates,…
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…