Ronald Backers

Next step against the persistent problem of storage spoofing portofrotterdam.com/en/news-and-pr…

Bunker data in @PortOfRotterdam for Q4 and therewith the full year 2025 are available. Growing quantities of (bio)LNG and bio-methanol, total is stable at 9.8 million tonnes portofrotterdam.com/en/news-and-pr…

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LIVE WEBINAR ON PREPARING FOR EU BAN ON RUSSIA-DERIVED REFINED PRODUCTS: The move to close the 'laundering loophole' that sees Russian crude make its way back into EU after being refined into diesel, gasoil, jet fuel and gasoline at refineries in India and Türkiye is about to begin. Tomorrow morning (Wednesday Jan 14) I'll be joining Daniel Martin to talk about the EU ban on refined products derived from Russia-origin crude that beings on January 21. The measure was announced in the 18th package last July (it seems so far away) and despite all the geopolitical shocks underway it's still a significant evolution in global refined products market and there's much to unpack about what the FAQs have clarified, and what's happening. LINK TO SIGN UP BELOW go.wnwd.com/eus-russian-or…

Seagoing throughput of rapeseed oil in @PortOfRotterdam is around 0.5 million metric tonnes over the last few years, incoming share is between 55 and 65%. #vegoils #bioport

Bikkels zijn het: krantenbezorgers @nrc

@serranaflamenco Fijne Kerstdagen

Feliz navidad a todos, en presencia de la paz del Señor. Espero que es este año seamos todos más justos, pacientes y que haya menos violencia en el mundo. Violencia nunca llega a nada.....

@BM_Visser Ik ben wel benieuwd welke vijf havens in de Med dit zijn. Buiten de Med zijn er nog meer: ook Le Have en Wilhelmshaven kunnen VLCC's ontvangen.

Europa telt 6 havens waar grote olietankers (VLCC) kunnen komen, waarvan 5 in de Middellandse zee. De bijzondere positie van R'dam maakt dat NL een groot olie-exporterend land is. Een ca. 20% als crude, de rest als olieproducten, dus met toegevoegde waarde. #grafiekvandedag

Lloyd's List editor in chief Richard Meade appeared on the BBC's Business Today to discuss the latest at the IMO

Bunker data of Q3 in @PortOfRotterdam are available now. There is a small decline compared to the former quarter and Q3 of 2025. Most remarkable: a return of bioblended VLSFO to levels of the first half of 2024. portofrotterdam.com/sites/default/…

I like this description of @PortOfRotterdam in a new book about oil trading by @AdiSurreyEnergy and Colin Bryce

This sounds like a title of a good road movie #combiningshipnames

Bunker data Port of Rotterdam: please note that the Q1 data of LNG has been increased! 2/2

We have just published the Q2 bunker data of Port of Rotterdam. Overall some growth compared to Q1 2025 and Q2 2024. HSFO is now the largest product, bioblended fuels are on their way up again and biomethanol is a regular prodct now. 1/2 portofrotterdam.com/sites/default/…

Oil demand per capita per annum since 1865. This is one of my favorite charts I have created. Despite popular belief, it has zero correlation with price (not shown)

Iets met klok en klepel? FDI, FID? @nrc

Listen to a top UN official describe the horrific humanitarian disaster in Gaza right now: "I can tell you from having visited...death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you." History will never forget that we enabled this atrocity.

My latest article for the Petroleum Economist (outside firewall). Fifty Years of oil Modern Oil Trading ... anticipating the book on the same subject: 'The Rivers of Money: Social and Economic History of Modern Oil Trading' out in July this year. pemedianetwork.com/petroleum-econ…

@AdiSurreyEnergy Great description of oil trade!

IBERIA BLACKOUT - European investigators publish first event timeline: entsoe.eu/news/2025/05/0…

IBERIAN PENINSULA hit by mass blackout and attempts black start - some initial thoughts: jkempenergy.com/2025/04/28/ibe…