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…
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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…
TradeWinds: Floating storage prospects set to rise for LNG carriers in flooded supply market
8 April 2020
Kristen Holmquist, Poten’s manager for short-term forecasting, said the LNG charter market remains “incredibly volatile”….
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Zombie Refineries
Theeey’re baaack. Atlantic Basin refineries that the market had relegated to the graveyard of unfit plants in an expanding…
Naphtha Redemption for LR1s?
After languishing below operating costs for almost six months, LR1 earnings on the benchmark Baltic TC5 route, carrying 55,000…
Removing Bottlenecks
The main culprit behind the recent uncharacteristically deep discount of West Texas Intermediate’s (WTI) price compared to Brent is…
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Asphalt Weekly Monitor
- East Coast wholesale FOB asphalt prices in higher range – CIF prices steady.
- East Coast retail asphalt prices are mixed…
Asphalt Weekly Monitor
- East Coast wholesale prices are steadfast this holiday week.
- East Coast retail asphalt prices are mixed – flux retail unchanged.
- Midwest…
Asphalt Weekly Monitor
- This is an abbreviated report for the Holiday Season. Price tables appear with limited text.
- US and Canada retail markets…
