Archive for the ‘Tankers’ Category

Ineos has reached a long-term agreement to supply US-produced ethane to SP Chemicals’ newbuild 650,000-tonne/year cracker in Taixing, Jiangsu Province, China. Ineos has been shipping ethane from the US to Europe since 2015.

Continental Resources Inc. has sold about 1 million bbl of Bakken oil to Atlantic Trading & Marketing Inc. (ATMI), which intends to export the oil to China. Daily sales transactions of 33,500 b/d will take place from Cushing, Okla., beginning in No…

Gazprom Neft PJSC
said a shipment of 1.78 million bbl of oil is being exported from Badra
field in eastern Iraq to the US in the New Solution crude oil tanker.

SemGroup Corp., Tulsa, has restored full operations at subsidiary Houston Fuel Oil Terminal Co.’s (HFOTCO) 16.8 million-bbl terminal following a temporary shutdown in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

US Gulf Coast refiners and shippers continue to restore operations amid possible damages and logistical constraints caused by Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey. Meanwhile, upstream oil and gas firms are still monitoring the midstream and downstream r…

The US will be a net oil exporter by 2023, predict analysts at PIRA Energy Group.
 

As personnel attempt to move in on upstream, downstream, and
midstream sites along the US Gulf Coast to assess possible damage
following passage of Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey, the US
government will move oil supply to the region’s beleaguered refining
segment and a major fuel pipeline system will attempt to restart a
portion of its operations.

Crude oil and natural gas production outages persist in the US Gulf
of Mexico as well as onshore Texas as Tropical Storm Harvey moves over
East Texas and southwestern Louisiana, another major US downstream
region.

Saudi Aramco said a cargo of Arabian crude has arrived at the Huizhou refinery operated by China National Offshore Oil Corp.

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. said its first cargo of US crude oil is expected to arrive in eastern India by Oct. 1.