By Sherry Su (Bloomberg) — Here’s something for oil bulls to chew on as Brent crude trades near $72: tankers are holding several million barrels of oil in the North Sea...

By Sheela Tobben and Javier Blas (Bloomberg) –Some of the world’s biggest oil traders are getting ready for the possible resurgence of a coronavirus-induced glut of crude and fuels, snapping...

By Florence Tan and Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Oil major BP has provisionally chartered a supertanker to store crude oil off Malaysia at this year’s lowest rate...

By Alex Longley, Sherry Su and Javier Blas (Bloomberg) — One of the oil market’s most obvious signs of oversupply — millions of barrels being stored on tankers all over...

By Jonathan Saul and Charles Regnier LONDON, May 7 (Reuters) – Leading tanker operator Euronav posted record high first-quarter results on Thursday and expects strong demand for oil storage at sea to...

By Robert Tuttle (Bloomberg) — Oil tankers carrying enough crude to satisfy 20% of the world’s consumption are gathered off California’s coast with nowhere to go as fuel demand collapses. Almost...

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) – Traders are storing an estimated record 160 million barrels of oil on ships – double the level from two weeks ago as...

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, March 30 (Reuters) – Supertanker freight rates are on the rise for a second time this month as producers, refiners and traders scramble to secure ships...

LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) – Trading house Glencore has chartered the 3 million barrel crude carrier ‘Europe’ to store oil at sea for at least 6 months, trading sources on Tuesday. The...

by Libby George, Ahmad Ghaddar (Reuters) – Gasoline stored in ships off Europe’s coast has ballooned to more than 400,000 tonnes, putting pressure on the continent’s traders to compete for...

By Serene Cheong (Bloomberg) — One of the biggest stores of oil at sea is showing signs of emptying out. The volume of supplies held on tankers in the Strait...

By Keith Wallis and Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE, June 16 (Reuters) – Traders are increasingly storing oil in ageing supertankers in Southeast Asia as they grapple with a supply overhang that has...

By Catherine Ngai NEW YORK/LONDON/SINGAPORE May 19 (Reuters) – After the first OPEC oil production cut in eight years took effect in January, oil traders from Houston to Singapore started...

By Mark Tay SINGAPORE, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Traders are selling oil held in tankers anchored off Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia in a sign that the production cut led by...

By Matthew Wheatley, Oil Analyst, Genscape (Genscape) – During the week ending November 11, three vessels, used for floating storage in Iran, left the Persian Gulf for destinations in India and South...

By Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — Oil companies booked tankers to store as many as 9 million barrels of crude in northwest Europe amid signs that space in on-land depots is filling...

By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Hong Kong-based trader Winson Oil has bought a very large crude carrier (VLCC) to store oil in the Mediterranean as it pushes...

By Javier Blas (Bloomberg) — The world is so awash with crude, the boss of BP Plc said people will be filling their “swimming pools” with it by the end...

By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) – Iran is slowly winding down stocks of oil stored on tankers close to its shores and the process is likely to take longer than...

By Naomi Christie and Rakteem Katakey (Bloomberg) — Back when the global recession trashed oil demand and prices, the likes of BP Plc and Vitol Group found a novel way...