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 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
April 28, 2016
Jim McCaul -- No question that the market for new floating production systems has taken a battering. The past 12 to 18 months have been a difficult period for everyone in the business sector. Absence ofby Jim McCaul 17 April 2019
US crude inventory has been hovering between 430 and 460 million barrels since early December. At 455 million bbls as of 12 April, US inventory is near the top of this range -- which is 2% below the five year average for this time of year.
Meanwhile, voluntary and involuntary supply curtailments by OPEC+ and more positive outlook for oil demand are providing support for crude prices.
Brent crude in early April pierced the $70 marker -- and as of 17 April is trading around $71.80. WTI crude, the US oil pricing benchmark, is trading at an $8 discount to Brent, which reflects the continuing logistics bottlenecks in getting growing US tight oil production to market.
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.
2019 Annual Outlook. Our new 150-page report is the first professional effort to systematically look at the universe of FLNG and FSRU projects in the planning stage – and categorize the likelihood of each making the development investment hurdle. Many FLNG and FSRU projects are planned – but only some will ultimately will move forward to development. The goal of our report is to objectively sort out likely winners and losers – and explain the rationale for the rating.
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April 22, 2019
Black & Veatch, the provider of floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) topside solutions…
April 22, 2019
Angola's state oil company Sonangol plans to divest 52 joint ventures, reduce staff…
April 18, 2019
Singapore's Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) has through its wholly-owned subsidiaries…
In our March report we look at whether the production floater forecast we made last October continues to be realistic, given developments over the past six months. There has been a slight slowing of projected global economic growth, a fall in oil prices on the spot and futures market and further evidence that shale investment is crowding out deepwater project starts. Petrobras has also not been consummating FPSO contracts as expected.
April 22, 2019
Oil prices jumped more than 2 percent on Monday to a near six-month high, on growing concern about tight global supplies…
April 22, 2019
Oil prices jumped more than 2 percent on Monday to a near six-month high, on growing concern about tight global supplies…
April 22, 2019
Angola's state oil company Sonangol plans to divest 52 joint ventures, reduce staff and focus on its core business, part…