Reuters LONDON – U.S. buyers of Saudi Arabian crude oil cancelled at least seven April-loading tankers after a jump in freight costs, two industry sources said, likely to result in lower-than-expected shipments from the world’s top exporter. The move shows how some buyers are not rushing to take extra oil despite a slide in prices this month to below $16
Reuters LONDON/NEW YORK/MOSCOW – Saudi Arabia is looking into re-routing millions of barrels of oil onboard tankers sailing to the United States if President Donald Trump decides to block imports of crude from the Kingdom, shipping and trade sources say. Some 40 million barrels of Saudi oil are on their way to the United States and due to arrive in
Reuters LONDON – Traders are storing an estimated record 160 million barrels of oil on ships – double the level from two weeks ago as they seek to tackle a glut of stocks created by a slide in global demand from the coronavirus, shipping sources say. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producers including Russia have agreed
Houston Chronicle Connecticut private firm Prostar Capital plans to invest $100 million into a recently acquired terminal in the Caribbean that will be able to receive some of the largest oil tankers in the world. Prostar bought the facility on the Dutch island of St. Eustatius from San Antonio pipeline and storage terminal operator NuStar Energy in a $250 million
Reuters SINGAPORE – Even as the United States and Iran appear to signal a keenness to avoid further conflict, oil and gas shipowners are bracing to pay a price for the war of words that culminated in rocket strikes in Iraq over the last week – higher insurance bills. According to industry sources, payments known as war risk premiums for
Wall Street Journal The U.S. blacklisting of the Cosco tankers set tanker freight rates on fire, but maritime fundamentals will keep prices high Crude oil exporters and users probably should get used to high shipping costs. The freight-rate roller coaster that was triggered by geopolitical events in September may have leveled off, but fundamentals in the shipping industry are only
Source: Houston Chronicle Oil refiners hoping for some fourth-quarter gravy are facing disappointment as surging freight rates inflate the cost of buying crude. U.S. sanctions on Chinese shipping companies and Friday’s attack on an Iranian tanker have turbo-charged transport costs, with rates on the Persian Gulf to China route at almost six times this year’s average. That’s slashing the margins
From Reuters The Panama Canal will continue authorizing vessels coming from Venezuela provided they present the necessary paperwork, the waterway’s chief said on Wednesday, suggesting a new round of U.S. sanctions on the South American nation should not make a difference to canal traffic. President Donald Trump’s administration last week issued an executive order freezing all Venezuelan government assets in
From gCaptain/Reuters German shipping firm Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) has moved to legally detain three of Venezuelan PDVSA’s oil tankers to collect on late payments owed to it by the state-run oil company, according to a document seen by Reuters and sources close to the decision. PDVSA has struggled for years to pay its bills due to falling crude output
From Bloomberg It’s never ideal if you own a fleet of crude tankers and the world’s oil producers remove millions of barrels of cargo from the market to avert a glut. Nor is a collapse in charter rates normally the best news. While both those things happened in the past few months, the people paid to evaluate the shipping industry’s
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From Reuters * Half-dozen tankers sit offshore Singapore with unsold LNG * Mild winter weather expected for Japan * Meteorologists expect return of El Nino weather * Japan has restarted seven nuclear power reactors SINGAPORE, Oct 25 (Reuters) – A fleet of half a dozen tankers carrying unsold liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been floating in Singapore and Malaysian waters
