Favorable Winds Ahead
9-Mar-2018: The overall tone of “Oil 2018”, the latest IEA annual forecast of global oil demand, supply, refining and trade…
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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
Navigating Uncertainty
Erik Broekhuizen
2 Mar 2018: Back in 2014, when oil prices were well above $100 per barrel, analysts regularly talked about a geopolitical…
Erik Broekhuizen
Taking Stock Of Inventories
Erik Broekhuizen
23-Feb-2018: Few oil publications are followed as closely as the Weekly Petroleum Status Report, published every Wednesday morning by the…
Erik Broekhuizen
Darkest Before Dawn
Erik Broekhuizen
16 Feb 2018: The tanker market of the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018 will probably be remembered…
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
Outages & Turnarounds
Erik Broekhuizen
9 Feb 2018: According to the latest IEA Oil Market Report, global refinery crude throughput reached 82.2 million barrels per…
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. …
