Glencore Charters One of the World’s Biggest Tankers to Store Oil at Sea
LONDON, March 17 (Reuters)– Trading home Glencore has actually hired the 3 million barrel crude service provider ‘Europe’ to save oil mixed-up for a minimum of 6 months, trading resources on Tuesday.
The vessel is among 2 supposed ultra huge unrefined providers (ULCC), the biggest vessels on the planet.
Glencore reserved the vessel at a price of $37,000 a day for the initial 6 months, according to the resources.
A Glencore representative decreased to comment.
Sources informed Reuters recently that Royal Dutch Shell had actually provisionally reserved a minimum of 3 supertankers to save petroleum mixed-up for a minimum of 3 months as investors support for a sharp increase in international supplies after OPEC as well as its allies deserted a manufacturing reduced bargain.
Each of these vessels can each lug an optimum of 2 million barrels of oil.
The excess of oil in globe markets has actually motivated initiatives by oil gamers to locate storage space choices consisting of both ashore as well as offshore on vessels. (Reporting by Ron Bousso as well as Jonathan Saul, extra coverage by Ahmad Ghaddar, modifying by Louise Heavens as well as Chizu Nomiyama)
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