Sliding Oil Prices Force LNG Developers to Push Pause
20 Feb 2015: LNG project developers were surely starting to feel anxious about the economic viability of their liquefaction…
What’s New
Business Intelligence Products
Global Trade Increases to 244 MMt, Breaking Two-Year Stagnation
17 Feb 2015: Preliminary data is showing that global trade reached 244 MMt in 2014 a new annual record…
Oil Price Slide Threatens LNG Funding Surge
12 Feb 2015: LNG financing activity maintained strong momentum through to the end of 2014, with transactions totalling a…
Media Mentions
TradeWinds News: VLCC rates surge 19% in a day to reach 28-month high
October 18, 2022
New York shipbroker Poten & Partners reported that average time-charter equivalent (TCE) earnings for a 270,000-dwt VLCC…
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…
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…
LNG & Natural Gas Opinions
Weekly Asphalt Headlines
Asphalt Weekly Monitor
10 Apr. 2020
- East Coast retail asphalt pricing eases in many areas, with flux prices steady.
- Asphalt barge prices move down…
Asphalt Weekly Monitor
3 Apr 2020
- East Coast retail asphalt pricing declined, with flux prices mostly unchanged.
- Asphalt and flux barge prices are lower…
Asphalt Weekly Monitor
27 Mar 2020
- East Coast retail asphalt pricing eased in some areas, with flux prices unchanged. …
