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The UAE Just Ended 59 Years in OPEC and Took Much of the World’s Spare Oil Capacity With It. Who Cushions the Next Shock?
Abu Dhabi left OPEC on May 1, 2026, and took 1.35 million bpd of unused capacity with it. The market’s shock absorber just walked out the door.
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Owners Just Ordered Tankers at the Fastest Pace in History, yet Effective Supply Will Grow Just 1% Over Three Years. Where Did the Fleet Go?
A record orderbook and a near-record aging fleet are colliding in slow motion. The tanker boom everyone is counting on may already be spoken for before…
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Oil Just Crashed Below $75, on Track for Its Worst Week in Months as Hormuz Reopens. Is the Record Tanker Boom Already Unwinding?
Brent shed nearly 7% this week as Hormuz traffic climbed to its highest level since February. The $468,900-a-day VLCC era is now on the clock.
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A Greek-Owned Supertanker Just Banked $468,900 in a Day on a Gulf Rate One Analyst Calls Imaginary. Can It Possibly Hold?
Embiricos is among the few Greeks brave enough to sail the mined strait everyone else flees. The record holds only if the ship survives it.
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Elon Musk Didn’t Buy a Shipping Company. He Bought the Nervous System of the Entire Fleet. Almost Every Ship Going Online at Sea Now Runs on…
Starlink now carries about 97% of ships on new satellite broadband after a 90% price cut gutted VSAT. The same network keeps Russia’s shadow fleet…
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China Just Won More Than 90% of the World’s New Supertankers. The Country That Spent a Year Hoarding Oil Now Builds the Ships That Carry It…
Chinese yards took more than 90% of new VLCC orders in 2026, helped by the Hormuz war. Korea is retreating upmarket and Japan has nearly vanished.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Says It Just Closed the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s Own Government Says It’s Open. The US Says 55 Ships Sailed…
The Revolutionary Guard cites a US ceasefire breach. Iran’s diplomats and the US Navy say ships are still moving. Both sides are now negotiating in…
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Hormuz Reopened. China and India Still Can’t Get Their Oil Out. PetroChina Just Rejected Every Tanker Offer It Got. Who Is the Reopening…
The deal reopened the strait on paper. But freight has tripled, the ceasefire is fragile, and the world’s two biggest buyers are stuck at the dock.
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The US Blockade Crushed Iran’s Oil Exports to a Six-Year Low. Then Trump Signed a Deal at Versailles, and the Tankers Are Already Sailing…
A naval blockade did in weeks what a decade of sanctions could not. Then it was traded away overnight, and Iran’s supertankers are moving again.
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The IMO Just Cleared the Path for the Autonomous Tanker. Owners Are Ordering 140 New Supertankers to Match. The Next VLCC May Run on a…
A new global code writes the autonomous ship’s rulebook from July 1. The biggest owners are already building for it, and crews are the variable.
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China Spent a Year Building a 1.4-Billion-Barrel Oil War Chest. The Iran War Just Proved Why. Now Hormuz Reopens and Beijing Can Reload. Who…
Beijing built the world’s largest oil hoard, then drew on it to survive the blockade. As Hormuz reopens and prices fall, China is ready to reload.
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Britain Just Seized Its First Russian Oil Tanker, in the English Channel. Who's Next?
Cameroon struck the Smyrtos from its registry, leaving it stateless. That was the opening Britain needed to seize it and its 600,000 barrels of Russian…
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