Post on 05-Mar-2021
Tanker Supply and Demand
Graham Westgarth
Chairman INTERTANKO
Nor-Shipping DNV Seminar
Oslo 25 May 2011
• Looking beyond the next two years toward 2015, what
sort of balance will there be in the tanker market?
• Will there be a similar consolidation in the tanker market
as we have seen in the container market? What are the
drivers for and against consolidation?
• Assuming that the large energy importing countries
increase their control of the total value chain, to what
extent will there be a role for the independent tanker
owner?
• Freight rates for some tanker segments at rock bottom
• Fundamentals still strong, but great uncertainty
caused by
– High oil price
– Political unrest
– Debt crises, unemployment, housing crises
• Many deliveries (but delays), young fleet
• Slack in supply of tankers
– slow steaming (ballast)
– Lowering C/P speed
– Fewer tanker transits through Suez Canal
– Piracy effect – longer routes/inefficiency
• New refineries in Saudi Arabia
Tanker Supply and Demand
What to watch
World GDP and Oil Demand Change
Source. IMF/BP/IEA/Fearnleys
%
Oil/tanker demand correlates with economic growth
Positive growth projected – but there is great uncertainty
Signs of oil slower growth demand due to high prices
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GDP
Oil demand
Tonne miles
Oil Price and Freight Rates 1970-2011
$ per barrel
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Nominal price Arab Light
Real price Arab Light
Nominal freight rate AG-West
Real freight rate AG-West
Deflated by the Consumer Price Index (USD)
CPI* index 1982-84=100
VLCC Newbuilding Prices
and Break Even Rates
Based on LRFairplay
m $
25,000
29,000
33,000
37,000
41,000
45,000
60
80
100
120
140
160
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11
Break even rate
Newbuilding prices
68,000 dwt47,000 dwt
Source: Clarkson Shipyard Monitor
215 VLCCs
29
18
29
41 54 55 70?
31
$/day
New tankers coming on to the market ordered at high prices
Tanker Demand
Increase in World Oil Demand in ME*, USA, China and ROW**
Based on IEA
bn tonne-miles
-2.6
-2.2
-1.8
-1.4
-1.0
-0.6
-0.2
0.2
0.6
1.0
1.4
1.8
2.2
2.6
3.0
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* *Rest of world*Middle EastUSAChinaWorld
Tanker Trade
Based on Fearnleys
bn tonne-miles
0
10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
60,000
70,000
80,000
90,000
1970s 1980s 1990s EST00s
-38%
+36%
+20%
Seaborne Oil Trade
and Middle East Oil Production
Based on Fearnleys/IEA
mbd 000 bn tonne-miles
9
12
15
18
21
24
1970
1972
1974
1976
1978
1980
1982
1984
1986
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
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2006
2008
2010
4,000
5,800
7,600
9,400
11,200
13,000
Middle East
Oil Prod mbd
Tonne miles
Asia 80% dependent on Middle East, Europe 18% and US 17% - some 15 mbd crude oil through Hormuz 2010
Middle East Oil Production
January 2000 to March 2011
Based on Fearnleys/IEA
mbd
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Primo
Sept
2009
$5,000/
day
Source: IEA
20 Aug 2003 VLCC AG-Japan
$3,800/day
8 July 2003
VLCC AG-
Japan
$14,000/day
Primo Jan
2007
$27,000/day
Primo July 2008
$181,600/day 20 July 2006
$87,000/day
19 Sept
2003
$74,500/
day
End Apr
2011
$365/day
29 Dec
2009
$9,000/
day
VLCC rates have approximately over the last years tracked
Middle east oil production – no longer!
Trade Movements
Based on BP
mbd
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20,000
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US Europe Japan Rest of World
Rest of world 26%
Rest of world 47%
Demand shifting from west to east
Tanker Supply
Tanker Fleet Development (Assumed max phase out, orderbook March 2009, include chemical tankers)
Tanker fleet increase 2003-2013 some 75%
m dwt number
275
329
383
437
491
545
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3,300
3,920
4,540
5,160
5,780
6,400
dwtNumber
Tanker Phase Out, Deliveries, Scrapping Tankers 10,000 dwt
+ Balance Assuming Various Demand Increases
m dwt
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15
35
55
75
95
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Max phase out
Deletions
Delveries
Surplus zero
trade grow thSurplus 2.5%
trade grow thSurplus 4%
trade grow thSurplus 6%
trade grow th
year
Assumed market balance end 2008
Minus 2% growth
in 2009 and the
above scenarios
later
Assumed removal
of double hull
tankers
Strategic Considerations
and Conclusions
Oil Demand, Tonne-mile,
and Tanker Fleet Indices
Source: IEA, Fearnleys, INTERTANKO
Tanker fleet increase
2002-2010: 46%
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Oil demand index
Tonne miles crude tanker index
Tanker fleet index
Index value
Fleet surplus has been disguised by storage, slow steaming and special events
Demand increased strongly in 2020, but
Demand increase abating?
Fleet increasing
Strategic Tanker Considerations
• A young fleet - 70% will be with us for at least another
10-15 years (built >2000)
• China expected to drive demand and the Middle East
has the reserves
• World economy still under threat, the high oil price
adds to the uncertainty
• Market balance set to weaken the next couple of years
• Successful Green House Gas emission reduction will
mean reduced oil consumption
• Costs reduction needs careful risk management
• Product tanker market may be the strongest, fewer
delivers, new Saudi refineries
Long and Short Term Considerations
• Still fragile economy
Long term
Wild cards:
Oil price
$ risik
Disruptions: insurgency,
hurricanes, strikes,…….
Storage/stocks
Short term
Positive
Negative
• Many deliveries
• Young fleet, little scrapping
• Large shipyard capacity
• Slow steaming and reduced C/P speed
• Around the cape transits
• Little use of Suez canal for crude transits
• Energy security
•GHG emission
• Alternative use of energy
• Fuel efficiency
• Peak oil?
• Population increase
• GPD increase
• Long term oil demand forecast up
• Increased dependence on Middle East oil
• Oil use per capita still low in China, India, Africa
A Fragmented Industry Largest operators/shares
Based on LRFairplay
VLCCs
560
Some 140 owners 7%
Suezmaxes
420
Some 110 owners
Aframaxes
890
Some 230 owners
7%
59
41
40
43
20
17
40
31
28
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
AET
Teekay
Sovcomflot Group
Teekay
Euronav
Nordic American
Mitsui
NYK
NITC
10%
Four Scenarios