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 energyThe continued spread of the coronavirus outbreak is creating supply chain disruptions and global economic slowdown. Oil demand has declined as a result, driving oil prices down. Brent spot crude, which traded around $70 in early January, is now trading around $53.
No major impact yet on upstream spending plans. This could change if the virus spread continues at a fast pace and market sentiment further declines.
Meanwhile, US commercial crude oil inventory, a figure often used as a surrogate for measuring global oil inventory balance, has been building since mid-January. As shown below crude inventory has increased each week over the past five weeks. But despite the build, US inventory remains 3% below the five year average for this time of year.
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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February 27, 2020
Malaysian FPSO leasing company Bumi Armada will appeal a recent court decision in…
February 27, 2020
Italian oil company Eni has upgraded its resource estimate for the Agogo field offshore…
February 26, 2020
Singapore's offshore facilities builder Keppel has said it has delivered "the world’s…
The coronavirus crisis has sharply cut oil demand in China, sending oil prices down more than 15% from the beginning of the year, threatening offshore capex plans. Meanwhile new production floater orders keep flowing. Modec booked a major FPSO contract at end-January, increasing its order backlog to a record eight FPSO contracts being simultaneously executed. The latest FPSO, destined for Equinor’s Bacalhau (formerly Carcará) field in Brazil…
February 27, 2020
Japan-based shipping giant NYK has presented its concept for using ammonia as a marine fuel or zero-emission ships as part…
February 26, 2020
Midland, Texas-based engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm BCCK, Inc. said its founder, Clark Butts and its…
February 26, 2020
Global industry advocacy group World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO) has created a new working group - the Floating Offshore Wind…