S&P Global Platts: Dirty tanker markets face reality check after boom busts: Fuel for Thought
15 July 2020
“If oil demand returns quickly, the tanker market will likely be strong once oil inventories have normalized,”…
S&P Global Platts: Global gas prices teeter above record lows on virus optimism, weather
June 24th, 2020
Without a strong recovery in global economic activity, LNG demand will take some time to recover, reflecting…
S&P Global Platts: NWE gas storage sites could be ‘almost’ full by end-August: Platts Analytics
May 21, 2020
Consultancy Poten & Partners in a recent webinar said storage sites could fill to capacity even by…
S&P Global Platts: Oil on floating storage soars to record highs, but peak still some way off
May 14, 2020
“Floating volumes are likely to keep going up in the next few months as many vessels that…
S&P Global Platts: Cancelled Asia-Europe freight fixtures to pressure rates lower
May 12, 2020
While it is difficult to pinpoint the exact volume of oil products floating at sea, it is…
S&P Global Platts: Cheniere cautious on liquefaction expansion plans after increase in Q1 profit
April 30, 2020
According to market sources, off-takers have canceled 10 to 20 cargoes for June loading from US LNG…
S&P Global Platts: Tankers: Waning onshore storage avails render floating storage best option
17 April 2020:
“Cuts are nowhere near enough to counter the 20 million b/d demand destruction,” Erik Broekhuizen, head of…
S&P Global Platts: Norway oil cuts could impact gas, but likely trumped by gas market dynamics
16 April 2020
Oleg Vukmanovic, analyst at Poten & Partners, said on a webinar Wednesday that it was the “worst…
S&P Platts: Coronavirus threatens to hamper US LNG exports as demand falls overseas
24 March 2020
“There is no precedent for a global pandemic that shuts down lots of economic activity,” Jason Feer,…
S&P Global Platts: China’s weekly LPG imports slump as COVID-19 dampens household, petrochemical demand
18 February 2020:
Brokerage Poten & Partners said China’s LPG demand is expected to reach 62.5 million mt in 2020,…