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Shippers "Playing Chicken" over IMO2020 with 30% Noncompliance Expected: Wood Mackenzie

But BP believes noncompliance will be closer to 9%.

14 Mar 2018

IMO 2020 Rule: Shipowners' Perspective

An estimated 51,000 commercial ships were registered around the world in 2016.

14 Mar 2018

RBC Warns of Looming Oil Supply Gap As OPEC Mulls Shift in Oil Cut Targets

Once again the notion is raised that the metrics measuring supply and demand need to be broadened.

13 Mar 2018

HSFO Carriage Ban a Boost for LNG Bunkers: SEA/LNG

A ban lessens the chances of being undercut by less scrupulous operators looking to burn non-compliant fuels, it says.

13 Mar 2018

Crude Down Due to Shale Surge, But Tillerson Exit Viewed as Good News For The Bulls

American output will hit a new record high in April of 6.95 million barrels per day.

13 Mar 2018

Intertek Acquires Malta-Based Bunker Surveyor

"The acquisition of AAS will expand our quality inspections footprint in the Mediterranean region," says André Lacroix, Chief Executive Officer of Intertek.

13 Mar 2018

Pro-LNG Group Throws Weight Behind IMO Non-Compliant Fuel Carriage Ban

"We urge formal approval of this proposal at MEPC 72 in April to ensure early adoption at MEPC 73 (in October)," says SEA\LNG chairman Peter Keller.

13 Mar 2018

Harvey Gulf CEO Seeks to Reassure on Future of LNG Bunkering

Harvey Gulf LNG-fuelled ships are out on longterm charters.

13 Mar 2018

Singapore: Monthly Bunker Sales Edge Up

500 CST and LSMGO increased sales over period.

13 Mar 2018

IMO2020 Switchover Dates and the Effect on Demand, Storage and Liquidity

The market is poised as a perfect place for a large trading house to make money offering volume and liquidity in return for reductions in price from the supplier, writes NSI's Paul Hardy.

13 Mar 2018

Worry Over Rising U.S. Output Causes Crude to Drop 1.1 Percent

The bearish outlook now is of range bound WTI at between $58 and $63 per barrel.

12 Mar 2018

EU MRV Fuelling Efforts to Reduce Bunker Consumption

New regs hove prompted an uptick in fuel-saving modification work, says Hydrex.

12 Mar 2018

ING Suggests Doomed OPEC Cutbacks Render Pointless Iran's Aim of Keeping Oil at $60/bbl

The bank believes the longer the deal goes on, the more members will pump all out to regain market share lost to the Americans.

12 Mar 2018

Bunker One Launches New Physical Supply Location

"Maritime activity in the Eastern Mediterranean has been characterized by continuous growth," the supplier says.

12 Mar 2018

Italy to Trial Cooking Oil-Blend Bunkers

City of Venice to trial the blend in its public transport fleet.

12 Mar 2018

Japanese Group Unveil Latest Bunker Saving Propellor Design

The trio expect savings of 1.2%.

12 Mar 2018

Scrubbers to Continue Playing a "Minor Role" for Tanker Segment Through 2020

Fuel oil trade will be fundamentally affected as a result, says Gibsons.

12 Mar 2018

Aegean Shareholder Group to Challenge HEC Deal in US Courts

Temporary restraining order on acquistion issued at New York district court.

12 Mar 2018

IMO2020: Singapore Will Retain Top Bunkering Spot, Says Maersk Executive

Although fuel oil imports into the port could rise above current levels.

12 Mar 2018

Analysts Differ on U.S. Shale's Sustainability but Doubt OPEC's Prospects of Market Control

One expert thinks the cartel's "marriage" with Russia is doomed to fail.

9 Mar 2018