Outages & Turnarounds
9 Feb 2018: According to the latest IEA Oil Market Report, global refinery crude throughput reached 82.2 million barrels per…
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Tanker Opinions
Poten & Partners tanker research and consulting group monitors and analyzes tanker market and energy developments around the world and advises companies on strategy development and implementation. Below you will find our team’s Weekly Tanker Opinions. To subscribe, click here.
Erik Broekhuizen
Scrapping To The Rescue?
Erik Broekhuizen
2 Feb 2018;
The tanker market has started 2018 in the doldrums. One of the main reasons for the depressed…
Erik Broekhuizen
Scrapping To The Rescue?
Erik Broekhuizen
2 Feb 2018;
The tanker market has started 2018 in the doldrums. One of the main reasons for the depressed…
Erik Broekhuizen
RIN-sanity Returns
Erik Broekhuizen
26 Jan 2018;
Last weekend, Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES), the largest oil refinery on the U.S. East Coast, filed for…
Erik Broekhuizen
Non OPEC Non US: No Problem
Erik Broekhuizen
19 Jan 2018;
Over the last couple of years, two topics have dominated the oil (and by extension the tanker)…
Erik Broekhuizen
(Not So) Happy New Year!
Erik Broekhuizen
12 Jan 2018;
Shipowners typically look forward to the winter. As the weather gets colder, the tanker market starts to…
Erik Broekhuizen
Spot The Difference
Erik Broekhuizen
Top Reported Dirty Spot Charterers for 2017
Every year Poten ranks the dirty spot charterers to see who tops the…
Erik Broekhuizen
Fixing Forties
Erik Broekhuizen
22 Dec 2017;
On Monday 11 December, the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) in the North Sea was closed for repairs. …
Erik Broekhuizen
Viva Mexico!
Erik Broekhuizen
15 Dec 2017;
In December 2013, Mexico made the necessary changes to its constitution to allow a widespread reform of…
Erik Broekhuizen
Fuel For Thought
Erik Broekhuizen
8 Dec 2017;
As we are approaching the end of 2017, a year most tanker owners would probably rather forget…
Erik Broekhuizen
No Surprise From Opec
Erik Broekhuizen
1 Dec 2017;
To nobody’s surprise, OPEC extended its oil production cuts on November 30. The original cuts, which were…
Erik Broekhuizen
Default Looming In Venezuela
Erik Broekhuizen
17 Nov 2017;
On Monday, November 13, Standard & Poor’s (S&P), one of the world’s leading credit rating agencies, lowered…
