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Monday, April 20, 2020
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Spot U.S Oil Futures Crash Below Zero. Here’s What the Experts are Saying

NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuters) – Energy traders fled from the expiring May U.S. oil futures contract in a frenzy on Monday, sending the contract deep into

April 20, 2020
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Monday, March 30, 2020
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Tanker Rates Double as Oil Contango Spreads

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

March 30, 2020
Total Views: 404

Thursday, March 19, 2020
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Tankers Drop Anchor as Traders See Profit in Price Rout

By Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — Oil tankers starting to drop anchor as traders start deploying the vessels to keep barrels at sea in the wake of the price

March 19, 2020
Total Views: 130

Wednesday, March 18, 2020
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Oil’s 24% Plunge in a Day Signals No End in Sight for Meltdown

By Alex Longley, Javier Blas and Jackie Davalos (Bloomberg) — Oil is ensnared in such a crisis that Wednesday’s 24% plunge in New York wasn’t even

March 18, 2020
Total Views: 103

Monday, March 9, 2020
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Oil in Grips of Chaos After Price War Triggers Historic Crash

By James Thornhill (Bloomberg) — Oil clawed back some of its biggest drop in a generation as a battle for market share between Saudi Arabia and Russia

March 9, 2020
Total Views: 87

Tuesday, September 17, 2019
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Oil Trims Losses on Conflicting Signals About Saudi Recovery

By David Marino and Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — Oil pared an earlier decline on contradicting reports about when Saudi Arabia will restore production

September 17, 2019
Total Views: 23

Monday, August 5, 2019
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Offshore

Oil Falls on Rising Trade War Tensions

By Kiran Dhillon (Bloomberg) –The international oil benchmark closed below $60 dollars a barrel for the first time in almost two months as worsening

August 5, 2019
Total Views: 19

Friday, July 19, 2019
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Oil Jumps as Tanker Seizure Escalates Tensions With Iran

By Harkiran Dhillon (Bloomberg) Oil climbed after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp said it seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, raising

July 19, 2019
Total Views: 69

Thursday, February 21, 2019
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Twelve Empty Supertankers Reveal The Truth About Today’s Oil Market

by Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) They are slowly plowing their way across thousands of miles of ocean toward America’s Gulf of Mexico coastline. As they do,

February 21, 2019
Total Views: 531

Friday, April 20, 2018
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Trump Tweets on ‘Artificially’ High Oil Prices: “Oil all over the place, including the fully loaded ships at sea”

By Susan Heavey and Rania El Gamal WASHINGTON/JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, April 20 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump accused OPEC on Friday of

April 20, 2018
Total Views: 17

Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Oil Markets Dip As Irma Approaches United States
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Oil Markets Dip As Irma Approaches United States

Henning Gloystein (Reuters) – Oil prices dipped on Wednesday as crude demand remained subdued on the back of refinery closures following Hurricane Harvey

September 5, 2017
Total Views: 9

Monday, March 20, 2017
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Oil Drops as U.S. Drilling Growth Threatens to Counter OPEC Cuts

By Mark Shenk (Bloomberg) — Oil fell as a U.S. drilling revival undermines the potential for OPEC output curbs to rebalance the market. Futures

March 20, 2017
Total Views: 15

Thursday, August 11, 2016
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IEA: Oil Markets to Tighten Slowly After Months of Oversupply

By Dmitry Zhdannikov MOSCOW, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Oil markets will begin to tighten in the second half of 2016 but at a slow pace as global demand growth

August 11, 2016
Total Views: 9

Tuesday, May 24, 2016
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Shipping News

World Better Forget About $100 Oil Coming Back, Norway Says

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — The oil market is rebalancing, but don’t count on ever seeing prices at $100 a barrel again: that’s the clear message

May 24, 2016
Total Views: 35

Wednesday, January 27, 2016
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Cheaper Bunkers Could Both Hinder and Help Container Lines, Says BIMCO

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Lower bunker costs are “very welcome in an industry struggling to make a profit”, says shipping industry association

January 27, 2016
Total Views: 22

Sunday, November 22, 2015
Global Oil Job Cuts Top 250,000
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Global Oil Job Cuts Top 250,000

by David Wethe and Saleha Mohsin (Bloomberg) – The number of jobs gutted from oil and gas companies around the world has now passed the 250,000

November 22, 2015
Total Views: 25

Thursday, October 29, 2015
Shell Posts Biggest Loss in More Than a Decade
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Shell Posts Biggest Loss in More Than a Decade

  By Rakteem Katakey and Javier Blas (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc reported its biggest net loss in at least 16 years after Europe’s largest

October 29, 2015
Total Views: 24

Wednesday, October 28, 2015
China Offshore Producer Cnooc’s Revenue Dips 32% on Lower Oil Prices
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China Offshore Producer Cnooc’s Revenue Dips 32% on Lower Oil Prices

By Aibing Guo (Bloomberg) — Cnooc Ltd., China’s biggest offshore oil and gas producer, posted a 32 percent decline in third-quarter sales as a slump in

October 28, 2015
Total Views: 27

Monday, October 12, 2015
Vroon to Lay-Up A Dozen Offshore Vessels
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Vroon to Lay-Up A Dozen Offshore Vessels

  Netherlands-based Vroon Offshore Services will be laying up 12 offshore vessels “as a direct result of the ongoing slump in offshore oil and gas

October 12, 2015
Total Views: 147

Monday, October 5, 2015
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Rolls-Royce Cuts 400 Marine Jobs as Oil Hits Offshore-Ship Sales

  By Christopher Jasper (Bloomberg) — Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc said it will cut another 400 jobs at its marine-engines arm as the oil-price decline

October 5, 2015
Total Views: 20
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