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Thursday, July 30, 2020
Hydrogen’s Future May Follow Path Blazed by Natural Gas
Maritime News

Hydrogen’s Future May Follow Path Blazed by Natural Gas

By Anna Shiryaevskaya (Bloomberg) –For a glimpse into the future of a hydrogen-fueled world, look no further than natural gas and the technology that

July 30, 2020
Total Views: 73

Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Oil Tankers’ Strange Trips Reveal a Stubborn Glut of Diesel
Maritime News

Oil Tankers’ Strange Trips Reveal a Stubborn Glut of Diesel

By Ryan Hesketh, Prejula Prem and Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) — For clues about how glutted the global diesel market remains, just look at the bizarre

July 29, 2020
Total Views: 57

Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Turkey Holds Off Sea Survey to Defuse Tensions with Greece
Maritime News

Turkey Holds Off Sea Survey to Defuse Tensions with Greece

By Firat Kozok (Bloomberg) — Turkey will hold off on surveying the seabed in an area of the eastern Mediterranean disputed by Greece to give time for

July 28, 2020
Total Views: 57

Friday, July 24, 2020
Oil Trading Profits Soar for Energy Majors Who Made Storage Bets
Maritime News

Oil Trading Profits Soar for Energy Majors Who Made Storage Bets

By Javier Blas and Lars Erik Taraldsen (Bloomberg) –In March and April, as oil prices plunged to their lowest in a generation, Norwegian energy giant

July 24, 2020
Total Views: 41

Thursday, July 23, 2020
File photo of an offshore drillship
Offshore

Shell Drills Dry Hole Offshore Brazil, Dimming Hope for Brazilian Oil

By Peter Millard (Bloomberg) –Royal Dutch Shell Plc has just drilled a dry hole in Brazil’s premier offshore region, a sign state-controlled Petrobras

July 23, 2020
Total Views: 203

vlcc tanker
Maritime News

Oil Drops With Demand Worries Reverberating From U.S. to Asia

By Andres Guerra Luz (Bloomberg) –Oil weakened as economies from the U.S. to Asia signaled a deepening demand fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

July 23, 2020
Total Views: 20

Wednesday, July 22, 2020
offshore rig
Offshore

U.K. Oil Industry at Odds With Government on Mass Covid Testing

By Ryan Hesketh (Bloomberg) –The U.K. oil and gas industry says blanket testing of its workers is essential to avoid Covid-19 outbreaks offshore, but the

July 22, 2020
Total Views: 4

Tuesday, July 21, 2020
offshore wind
Maritime News

New York Wants to Buy Enough Clean Power for 1.5 Million Homes

By Christopher Martin (Bloomberg) –New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is seeking bids for up to 4,000 megawatts of clean energy, enough to power 1.5 million

July 21, 2020
Total Views: 42

Monday, July 20, 2020
lng carrier
Maritime News

LNG Traders Dabble in Floating Storage as Winter Demand Beckons

By Stephen Stapczynski and Anna Shiryaevskaya (Bloomberg) –Liquefied natural gas traders are expected to take a page from the oil market playbook:

July 20, 2020
Total Views: 77

Oil tanker in Ningbo Zhoushan port
Maritime News

Oil Tanker Titans to Get Little Joy From OPEC+ Opening the Taps

By Ryan Hesketh (Bloomberg) –At almost any other moment in history, the promise of oil producers pouring millions of barrels of crude to the global

July 20, 2020
Total Views: 14

Friday, July 17, 2020
oil tanker at anchor
Maritime News

Oil Weakens In Wake of Sluggish Economic Recovery

By Andres Guerra Luz (Bloomberg) –Crude dropped as investors assessed weak economic data and signals that a recovery in consumption may be slowing.

July 17, 2020
Total Views: 27

offshore wind farm
Maritime News

Norwegian Billionaire Reshapes Oil Empire for Renewable-Energy Future

By Mikael Holter and Lars Erik Taraldsen (Bloomberg) –Billionaire Kjell Inge Rokke is transforming the structure of his business empire as he seeks to

July 17, 2020
Total Views: 106

Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Offshore Oil Platform
Offshore

COVID-19 Is Killing Oil Workers at an Unparalleled Pace in Mexico

By Amy Stillman (Bloomberg) — Of all the companies around the world affected by Covid-19, none has disclosed a worse death toll than Pemex, Mexico’s

July 15, 2020
Total Views: 43

tanker at sea
Maritime News

Gunvor CEO Says Oil Trading and Shipping Thrived Amid Coronavirus Crash

By Andy Hoffman and Laura Hurst (Bloomberg) –The billionaire CEO of Gunvor Group told staff the firm thrived during the oil market meltdown caused by the

July 15, 2020
Total Views: 41

shutterstock_403068616 tanker nigeria
Maritime News

Gulf of Guinea Re-Emerges as Piracy Hotspot, Allianz Says

By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo (Bloomberg) –The West African coast has overtaken Southeast Asia as the worst area for reported piracy and kidnappings at sea last

July 15, 2020
Total Views: 94

Tuesday, July 14, 2020
FILE PHOTO: China's Liaoning aircraft carrier with accompanying fleet conducts a drill in an area of South China Sea
Maritime News

U.S. Shift in South China Sea Raises Risk of Clash on the Water

By Philip J. Heijmans and Andreo Calonzo (Bloomberg) — The Trump administration’s move to brand most of Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea a

July 14, 2020
Total Views: 44

Friday, July 10, 2020
The World’s Cruise Ships Can’t Sail. Now, What to Do With Them?
Cruise Ships

The World’s Cruise Ships Can’t Sail. Now, What to Do With Them?

By Fran Golden (Bloomberg) –Hundreds of people lined the banks of Glasgow’s River Clyde a few weeks ago for the rare sight of a small, high-end cruise

July 10, 2020
Total Views: 369

Key Countries Agree to Help Bring Home Seafarers Stuck on Ships
Maritime News

Key Countries Agree to Help Bring Home Seafarers Stuck on Ships

By K. Oanh Ha and Krystal Chia (Bloomberg) — More than a dozen countries with crucial global shipping hubs agreed to ease port and border restrictions

July 10, 2020
Total Views: 44

Thursday, July 9, 2020
Seafarers Fear There’s No Plan to Get Them Off Ships
Maritime News

Seafarers Fear There’s No Plan to Get Them Off Ships

By K. Oanh Ha, Krystal Chia and Claire Jiao (Bloomberg) — Like thousands of other seafarers, Karika Neethling wanted to get home as the coronavirus

July 9, 2020
Total Views: 106

Monday, July 6, 2020
Cruise CEOs Insist Ships Are Safe, Prepare New Health Protocols
Cruise Ships

Cruise CEOs Insist Ships Are Safe, Prepare New Health Protocols

By Jonathan Levin and Christopher Palmeri (Bloomberg) –Two of the world’s largest cruise operators insist their ships are no more vulnerable to the

July 6, 2020
Total Views: 70
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