International Maritime Associates (IMA) is a firm of business consultants specializing in market analysis and strategic planning for companies in the marine and offshore sectors.
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February 1, 2020
Jim McCaul — Activity in the deepwater sector took a huge hit in the second half of last decade as a result of a global oil demand/supply imbalance, downturn in oil prices, hiatus in Petrobras production
February 14, 2019
Jim McCaul — IMA/World Energy Reports has just completed a twelve month detailed assessment of the floating liquefaction and regasification market. The 150+ page study examines future market opportunities
February 12, 2019
Jim McCaul — Floating production storage and offloading vessels (FPSOs) are by far the most popular type of floating production system. They account for two thirds of the oil/gas production floaters now
April 15, 2017
Jim McCaul -- Orders for production floaters have finally begun to flow. The break came early this year when contracts for a production semi for use in the GOM and an FPSO for use off Malaysia were awarded.
December 12, 2016
Jim McCaul -- Donald Trump’s presidential win and Republican sweep of the US government in November – along with OPEC’s oil production cuts in December -- have injected new dynamics into the US energy
Jim is the founder and manager of IMA, a consulting firm providing market analysis, competitive benchmarking and business planning support in the maritime and offshore sectors. Over the past 40 years IMA has performed more than 350 business consulting assignments for 170+ clients in 40+ countries.
One of the firm’s specialties is analyzing requirements for floating production systems. IMA has published more than 60 reports since 1996 analyzing this business sector and has been engaged by numerous clients to assist in analyzing specific market opportunities in the floating production sector.
Jim is also the co-founder of IMA/World Energy Reports, a New York based business intelligence service for the floating production supply chain.
Brent crude continues to trade near $90, providing a solid flow of cash to oil producers. And current prices could soon look cheap. Tensions in the Middle East have potential to send oil prices through the ceiling, with talk of oil spiking to $100+ if conflict spreads regionally. Longer term, recent developments clearly demonstrate the resilient role of fossil fuel as the primary energy source over the foreseeable future.
December 7, 2023
Norwegian Diving Contractor, SubseaPartner, won a contract for the 2024 season, work…
November 29, 2023
Saipem won two offshore contracts, one in Guyana and the other in Brazil, worth approximately…December 8, 2023
Bangladesh started in recent days a large crude oil receiving and offloading facility built by China that allows the south Asian oil importer to signi
December 7, 2023
The Crown Estate, which manages the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, has set out further details of a new…
December 5, 2023
Vattenfall and BASF are in advanced and exclusive discussions to partner on the Nordlicht 1 and 2 projects through a sale…