oil refining
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Company earnings
Investors getting nervous about IMO 2020 tanker pitch
IMO 2020-driven refining activity and tanker demand appears to be materializing slower than previously expected.
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Supply Chains
Commentary: Are the cycles of destruction to Louisiana’s freight infrastructure inevitable?
In the wake of Hurricane Barry, Brian Aoaeh writes about the disruption to supply chains that hurricanes and flooding can do. In particular, the state…
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Energy
FreightWaves oil report: Diesel just sits there while gasoline rockets higher
When a spread like that between gasoline and diesel come in this far and this fast, it can’t go on forever.
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Economics
The outlook of one energy economist for IMO2020: chaos in the diesel market
Stepping into the system is expected by this economist to be Donald Trump, using emergency powers to halt exports of diesel fuel
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Maritime
Maersk changes course, will install IMO 2020 scrubbers
As late as last month, Maersk leadership insisted that scrubbers were not a solution for the new fuel regulations imposed by the International Maritime Organization…
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Fuel
Biofuel industry thrilled with EPA for support, refiners not so much
A united retail fuel industry thanked EPA and the Trump administration for hearing and responding to their concerns and proposing renewable fuel obligations.
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Economics
New shipping regulations might send oil prices up the roof by 2020
New IMO regulations asking for the shipping industry to cap the sulfur content in its fuel to 0.5% would have far reaching consequences on crude…
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