Reading the Tea Leaves
23 Oct 2015: Another round of oil demand growth projections. This is the time of the year that most investment…
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Erik Broekhuizen
Battle of the Benchmarks
Erik Broekhuizen
16 Oct 2015: East Coast Refiners’ Crude Sourcing. Strong growth in U.S. shale oil production in recent years has…
IT Admin
This Time it is Different
IT Admin
9 Oct 2015: The VlCC market is hot again, but for different reasons. Late last week, time charter equivalents (TCE’s),…
Erik Broekhuizen
Cloudy With a Chance of Rate Falls
Erik Broekhuizen
2 Oct 2015: The impact of lower US production on the Jones Act. The U.S. Flag tanker market has…
Erik Broekhuizen
More From Mesopotamia
Erik Broekhuizen
25 Sep 2015: Iraqi crude oil production. After OPEC decided in November 2014 to maintain market share rather than protect…
Erik Broekhuizen
Is the Dragon Cooling?
Erik Broekhuizen
18 Sep 2015: What is happening with Chinese oil demand? These days, the negative news coming out on China…
IT Admin
Tankers Keep Korean Yards Afloat
IT Admin
11 Sep 2015: Tanker orders help recoup some of the offshore losses. So far in 2015, Korea’s largest shipyards have…
IT Admin
Plugging Nigeria’s Black Hole
IT Admin
4 Sep 2015: New Nigerian Government overhauls oil industry. When Nigeria gained independence from Great Britain in 1960, the country was…
Erik Broekhuizen
Market Turm(Oil)
Erik Broekhuizen
28 Aug 2015: Impact of the volatility in the equity markets on tankers. Over the last two weeks, equity…
Erik Broekhuizen
To Beach or Not to Beach
Erik Broekhuizen
21 Aug 2015: The uncertain future of vessel recycling. Benjamin Franklin once said “in this world nothing can be…
Erik Broekhuizen
Top Dirty Tanker Routes in 2015
Erik Broekhuizen
7 Aug 2015: What are the busiest dirty spot trade routes so far this year? For many years Poten has kept…
Erik Broekhuizen
Building for the Future
Erik Broekhuizen
31 Jul 2015: Should tanker owners take advantage of low yard prices? The tanker market has been doing very…
