Pakistan Plans More Terminals as Demand Expected to Surge
12 Oct 2016: A month after finalizing a second floating storage-and-regasification unit (FSRU), Pakistan is looking to add two…
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2015 Paris Climate Conference to Affect Imports into Largest LNG Markets
18 Oct 2016: In December 2015 at the Paris Climate Conference, 196 countries made pledges — most of them…
Short-Term Contracts Help Japan Deal With Demand Uncertainty
12 Oct 2016: Japanese LNG importers are beginning to rely on short-term contracts as it gets more difficult to…
Media Mentions
TradeWinds News: West Africa unlikely to fill void left by EU ban on Russian crude imports, says Poten
October 17, 2022
Key reasons are a combination of declining production and renewed competition from China,…
Riviera Maritime Media: Will OPEC’s cuts trigger NOPEC?
October 11, 2022
Poten & Partners’ analysis looks at the potential unintended consequences of OPEC’s oil…
TradeWinds News: US strategic oil release adds extra 1m barrels to export slate
October 10, 2022
US shipbroker Poten & Partners warned the SPR is not “an unlimited reservoir…
Events
Tanker Opinions
Tanker Midterms
June 28 2019: We have reached the middle of the year, so it is time to take stock of…
Refinery Fire Sparks Tanker Rally
June 21 2019: U.S. oil industry news is usually dominated by reporting on shale oil, Permian crude production and…
Tanker Wars 2.0?
June 14 2019: Two oil tankers, the 110,000 dwt LR2 Front Altair (built 2016) and the 27,000 dwt product…
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Asphalt Weekly Monitor
27 Mar 2020
- East Coast retail asphalt pricing eased in some areas, with flux prices unchanged. …
Asphalt Weekly Monitor
20 Mar 2020
- East Coast rack activity is increasing, with some retail asphalt pricing lower – flux prices…
Asphalt Weekly Monitor
13 March 2020
- East Coast rack activity remains sluggish, with all retail pricing unchanged this week.
- Asphalt barge prices moved sharply…
