If we take a detailed look at the tanker orderbook over the past 16 months, it will come as no surprise that investment has been heavily geared to product carriers. Download File [PDF]

The Brent-WTI spread’s blowout in late 2010 through 2011 made and lost many a small fortune. The spread was largely a result of unforeseen increased production running into transportation bottlenecks, creating an opportunity for everyone from railroad to Download File[PDF]

News headlines pertaining to the tanker market have been dominated by reports surrounding the positive sentiments of the clean tanker markets. Download File[PDF]

Healthy Aframax income has been hard to come by in recent years. Even the once guaranteed income generators of the winter season-poor weather, ice class requirements and Turkish straits delays-have failed to support the beleaguered Aframax owners in the last couple of years.Download File [PDF]

Conservationists and industry have been at odds over the ability of crude oil to continue to serve as a primary conduit for meeting the energy needs of an ever-expanding population and associated economic output almost since the inception of commercialscale crude oil production.Download File[PDF]

Tanker values across all classes and age categories have experienced strong connections from peak levels reached just before the financial crisis went into Download File[PDF]

Last week's headlines about diminishing safe havens and doomed economies are still ringing in our ears, serving now as another reminder that current crude tanker Download File [PDF]

A combination of increased crude oil production and slumping refined product demand has shifted refinery marketing dynamics in the United States. US distillate exports Download File[PDF]

Sustained US crude production gains continues to impact tanker demand, as has been well noted within the industry. However, the distribution of crude tanker demand destruction has been far from even, making some sectors more Download File[PDF]

Declining production, coupled with low levels of investment in domestic refineries and crude exploration have diminished Mexico’s role as a major crude oil producer and exporter.Mexico’s domestic crude oil production and export volume have fallen by nearly 1 million barrels per day (mbpd) since 2006.Download File[PDF]