Liquid Currents: Market and data insights across LPG, global oil, and freight movements
Liquid Currents: Market and data insights across LPG, global oil, and freight movements
Podcast Description
Vortexa presents "Liquid Currents", your fresh monthly take across the barrel in the Americas markets from Samantha Hartke, our Head of Analysis in the Americas.
Each monthly episode features unique market and data insights across LPG, global oil, and freight movements - fuelled by Vortexa platform datasets and in-house intelligence.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on energy market dynamics, specifically in LPG, global oil, and freight movements. Episode topics include tariff impacts on LPG and light ends, responses to the US-China trade war, and local refining developments in various PADD regions, with features such as market outlooks and cargo reshuffling.
The Gulf oil and shipping market is harder to read than it’s been in years. Liquid Currents: MENA Edition brings you the conversations that usually happen off the record.
In each episode, host Randa Elbarari sits down with the traders, chartering heads and commercial leaders shaping the region’s energy flows. They come from national oil companies, trading houses, refiners and shipping companies across the Gulf, and they talk about what’s actually moving crude, products, LPG and freight right now. There are no decks and no press lines, just the version of the conversation you’d normally only hear informally.
Each episode closes with the Vortexa View, a look at what our data is picking up in real time.
New episodes come out monthly, with highlights every week.
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Season 2 of Liquid Currents opens with a deep dive into the energy market forces shaping early 2026, as sanctions, shifting trade flows, and freight dynamics collide across crude, LPG, and products markets.
Host Samantha Hartke looks at mounting pressure on US propane exports and what it means for inventories and pricing against a backdrop of still-lower Middle East CP pricing, and then is joined by Rohit Rathod, Claire Jungman, Mick Strautmann, and Delia He to unpack rapidly evolving Venezuela crude and naphtha flows, before widening the discussion to impact of sanctioned flows and the dark fleet on freight market dynamics, oil on water and product flow disruptions.
Whether you are tracking sanctions exposure, freight risk, or feedstock competition, this episode sets the tone for the season ahead.
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