By hellenicshippingnews Refiners in South Korea, the world's fifth-largest crude oil importer, have stepped up spot purchases this year, buying at prices depressed by an oil glut as they run their plants at high rates to catch strong processing margins. With the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producers keeping crude taps […]

* Refining margins to drop 20-30 percent in Q3 -consultancies Read full story › Source:: Reuters UK Natural Resources       

By hellenicshippingnews Refineries around the world are using more crude oil. To get the cheapest supplies around, they don't have to look any further than their own storage tanks. When a global glut of crude oil sent prices plunging to near-six-year lows in the first quarter of the year, refineries started stocking up. The market […]

At last! An answer of sorts to a question that has been bothering me for more than thirty years: where does title to a cargo of oil pass from seller to buyer on a CIF or CFR deal? Don’t nod off yet before you have read a very welcome article in today’s Shipping Oil News […]