Tanker Opinions

The past three years have produced an extremely volatile crude oil market, as prices have waivered up and down…

Since their discovery in 1968, Alaska’s North Slope fields have produced 16.2 billion barrels of crude oil, and have…

The Mississippi River is America’s largest contiguous waterway, and a vital transportation way for the domestic petroleum supply chain….

As highlighted in the last Weekly Tanker Opinion, Royal Flush, weakness in the crude oil freight markets continues to…

April 2011 will be remembered as the month of the Royal Wedding by many, but it has also been…

Spring is in the air: the birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming and the media is blathering to…

Throughout the annals of mankind, examples of ethanol’s use as a premium party fuel are common. Nowadays, though, man’s…

In the year since the Deepwater Horizon blowout, conflicting and confusing messages have come from the White House regarding…

While the role of the United States as the largest crude oil consumer should not be understated, a change…

As tanker spot-chartering rates have experienced a mild recovery in recent months, equity analysts and industry pundits alike have…