Spot The Difference
Top Reported Dirty Spot Charterers for 2017
Every year Poten ranks the dirty spot charterers to see who tops the…
Fixing Forties
22 Dec 2017;
On Monday 11 December, the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) in the North Sea was closed for repairs. …
Viva Mexico!
15 Dec 2017;
In December 2013, Mexico made the necessary changes to its constitution to allow a widespread reform of…
Fuel For Thought
8 Dec 2017;
As we are approaching the end of 2017, a year most tanker owners would probably rather forget…
No Surprise From Opec
1 Dec 2017;
To nobody’s surprise, OPEC extended its oil production cuts on November 30. The original cuts, which were…
Default Looming In Venezuela
17 Nov 2017;
On Monday, November 13, Standard & Poor’s (S&P), one of the world’s leading credit rating agencies, lowered…
Indian Crude Oil Imports
Can Indian Demand Replace Chinese Growth Slowdown?
A number of forecasters see in India a potential engine of global oil…
Tanker Market Hits Peak Supply Growth
3 Nov 2017; With the winter months approaching, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at what…
Taking Stock
27 Oct 2017;
When OPEC announced their first production cuts in eight years in September 2016, it was clear that…
Kurdish Tightrope
20 Oct 2017;
On September 25, 2017, the Kurdish Autonomous Region, governed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq…
