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 September 2019
It was bound to happen. Only question was when.
A well synchronized air attack on Saudi Aramco's central crude processing facility over the weekend badly impacted Saudi oil production. Around 5.7 mb/d of output capability was cut off.
Brent spiked to $69 by end of Monday trading. WTI increased to $63. On the futures market Brent for delivery in December 2020 jumped 3.3%.
Reports that half of the production outage had been restored or replaced by inventory drawdown calmed the market on Tuesday, removing around half the Monday price increase. As of close of trading Tuesday Brent was trading around $65.
At this time there is little firm information on how long rebuilding will take. And there could be a lot more disruption to come should there be retaliation.
Certainly the attack has demonstrated the vulnerability of Mideast crude production.
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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September 23, 2019
A timelapse video from Energean shows the floating production, storage and offloading…
September 17, 2019
The newbuild P-68 floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) has left…
September 16, 2019
Norwegian engineering and construction services company Kvaerner said it will ramp…
In the September WER report we profile 48 floating regasification terminal (FSRU) projects at various stages of planning and provide our assessment of the probability of each moving forward to development. The evaluation takes into account the strength of the project promoter, infrastructure needed to support the terminal development, strength of local gas offtaker, government support for the project, stage of permitting approvals and ease of doing business in the importing country.
September 24, 2019
Israel-based renewable energy projects developer Enlight Renewable Energy (ERE) along with its Serbian partner New Energy…
September 24, 2019
Korea Midland Power (KOMIPO) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on business development and cooperation in the…
September 24, 2019
Denmark-based GreenSteam, a majority owned company of BP, has acquired BMT’s data collection and performance optimisation…