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Erik.Ranheim@intertanko.com Manager Research and Projects Maritime Transportation of Energy from Russia & Central Asia Challenges & Opportunities St Petersburg 5 & 6 October 2004. Setting the Scene. W orld of shortages of vital commodities? F resh water short in all continents
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Erik.Ranheim@intertanko.com Manager Research and Projects Maritime Transportation of Energy from Russia & Central Asia Challenges & Opportunities St Petersburg 5 & 6 October 2004
Setting the Scene • World of shortages of vital commodities? • Fresh water short in all continents • Grain (105 m ts over use in 2003) • Oil – Will oil supply limit tank demand? • Inability to predict the future • CANNOT succeed without a portion of paranoia (Bill Gates). Continuously search for and identify what can cause problems and take necessary precautions on how to solve them
Setting the Scene • World would have been facing a 3rd oil crisis without Russian expansion • How much more and for how long? • Pipelines • Tanker Safety performance high
Russian oil * * * *
Market effect • of one mbd transported various trades
World increase in oil demand supplied by FSU and the rest mbd
Oil export from FSU 1H04 • Source: IEA
Oil export by tanker • Baltic export will increase the most • New markets opening North and East, and from Ceyhan • Pipelines will probably take market shares from Eastwards transportation in the long term
’000 tonnes • The Turkish Straits are one of the world's busiest sea lanes (50,000 vessels annually, including 5,500 oil tankers) • Under the Montreux Convention of 1936, commercial shipping has the right of free passage through the Bosporus and Turkish Straits in peacetime, although Turkey claims the right to impose regulations for safety and environmental purposes.Source: US EIA/DOE
Total number of tanker incidents reported • Collisions, groudings, Hull&Machinery, Fire&Explosions, others
Tanker trade by hull - Baltic and Black Sea • tankers above 50,000 dwt
Conclusion • Russianoil export essential to the world market and will be of increasing importance to the tanker market • Pipelines may in medium to long term take market shares • Safety performance of tankers is high and the fleet rapidly modernized, tankers trading out of the Baltic 95% DH, out of the Black sea 76% DH 1Q04.