Susan Sakmar

Director @flexlngltd🚢 PT Law Prof ⚖️ Gov Body @GastechEvent, Author “Energy for the 21st Century: Opportunities & Challenges for LNG.” 📕 #USLNG 🇺🇸

[Susan Sakmar @SusanSakmar]

🇬🇷 I’m in Athens all week for my first time at #Posidonia2026. With the US more focused on Greece as an LNG corridor to Europe and the shipping world gathering here, it seemed like a good time to check it out.

[Posidonia Events @PosidoniaEvents]

✨ The skies over the Attica Riviera lit up ahead of #Posidonia2026 with a spectacular drone show celebrating global shipping & the start of Posidonia week. ⚓️

A big thank you to DRNS for sponsoring this unforgettable experience.

[Susan Sakmar @SusanSakmar]

🇬🇷 ICYMI “Trade intelligence and maritime analytics provider Kepler🚢 secured a strategic growth investment of more than $1bn from global investment firm Sixth Street in one of the biggest announcements to come out of this week’s @PosidoniaEvents exhibition, particularly for the revelation that Kpler now has a market valuation of $3.85bn.”
#Posidonia2026

[Splash @Splash_247]

Kpler secures $1bn-plus investment https://t.co/dPl9fAMwQc

[Susan Sakmar @SusanSakmar]

@Splash_247 This time is different.😅 I wasn’t in shipping in 2008, but lived through the GFC and one difference I see is the financial system now has trillions of $$$ sloshing around. Is it enough to prevent another GFC? 🤔 Time will tell. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Splash @Splash_247]

The ghost of Posidonia 2008 https://t.co/Z7qPWNgifG

[Goldman Sachs @GoldmanSachs]

A record two-thirds of institutional investors expect oil prices to fall, according to a recent Goldman Sachs Marquee client survey. The results suggest that investors anticipate a potential easing of tensions in the Middle East, which could restore crude oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Briefings, for more insights: https://t.co/3o9b3dnl9p

[Natural Gas Intel @NGInews]

Glenfarne Unveils Staggering Alaska LNG Price Tag: Glenfarne Group this week told state lawmakers that its Alaska LNG project could cost nearly $55 billion. https://t.co/WXIGr7QWmw

[Sempra Infrastructure @SempraInfra]

We recently announced that ECA LNG Phase 1 has successfully begun producing LNG as part of the commissioning process toward commercial operations.

➡️Learn more about this milestone achievement: https://t.co/y2voFEyfgv

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@SecretaryWright at the Sable pipeline in Santa Barbara: "These are wells drilled decades ago, just sitting there idle. We used the Defense Production Act to bring that production on. It grew California's oil and gas production by 20% — just turning a valve."

[Bloomberg @business]

Oman’s main crude oil export terminal at Mina Al Fahal has delayed loadings after an explosion disrupted port operations, according to traders familiar with the matter https://t.co/dhnp1O3B4z

[Susan Sakmar @SusanSakmar]

🇺🇸🤝🇬🇷 The US-Greece partnership is strong and rooted in history especially in the aftermath of WWII, but now also due to LNG and USLNG!
✔️ “There are no other alternative shipping fuels other than LNG.”🚢
✔️ “Greece and USLNG is a strong partnership helping to build out the vertical gas corridor to Europe.”
✔️ He’s happy to work with @USAmbassadorGR to strengthen the partnership.

🇬🇷 Vassilis Kikilias, Minister Ministry of Maritime Affairs, and Insular Policy.

#Posidonia2026

[Susan Sakmar @SusanSakmar]

🇬🇷 Joshua Divin @ABSeagle says AI is a generational step change in technology!
ABS has created a new center for AI excellence and a new AI consulting division. Example noted was a trained chatbot to search ABS rules, regs, data.
#Posidonia2026

[Susan Sakmar @SusanSakmar]

🇬🇷 Chockpoints like Strait of Hormuz (and others like Malacca, Suez) are growing vulnerabilities says Daniel Tadros CEO American P&I. AIS spoofing and cyber attacks are causing more disruption.
😮 Dark fleet “is an accident waiting to happen.” 👀👀👀
🤔 Less than 5% of containers are inspected globally. 🚢
#Posidonia2026

[Susan Sakmar @SusanSakmar]

🇬🇷 Risk management: Worry is persistently high energy prices will impact global growth and Navios preparing for downturn just in case says CEO Navios. #Posidonia2026

[Susan Sakmar @SusanSakmar]

🇬🇷 Wars in the future will be won by those who have resilient supply chains. For the US, having a strong maritime industrial base is a priority, including the need to add shipbuilding capacity says Robert Obayda, Davie Shipbuilding. 🚢
Great side event @PosidoniaEvents by @AmChamGr @ABSeagle @USAmbassadorGR.

[Stephen Stapczynski @SStapczynski]

MORE US LNG 🇺🇸🚢🚢🚢

Delfin Midstream announced that it has secured full investment for the first phase of its planned LNG export project off the coast of Louisiana

Exports are slated for 2030, which will further cement the US as the world's top LNG supplier

[Financial Times @FT]

Gulf states in talks for oil pipelines to bypass Hormuz https://t.co/lniJHoLZT3

[Bloomberg @business]

Some Greek oil tanker owners are moving their ships closer to the Persian Gulf in a bet that the vessels will soon be able to earn sky-high rates if the Strait of Hormuz reopens. https://t.co/oUPUiMEo3O

[Financial Times @FT]

One of Greece’s leading tanker operators has sent at least eight ships through the strait since the end of February, according to ship-tracking data. What do its recent vessel movements reveal? https://t.co/RvJHMZH4OT

[Stephen Stapczynski @SStapczynski]

Empty LNG tankers are amassing in the Gulf of Oman. Will they make a run through Hormuz soon? 🚢 🚢

Qatar and Adnoc have LNG export plants in the Persian Gulf behind the strait

Qatar hasnt brought an empty LNG tanker through Hormuz yet. But it did send a few loaded shipments

[Susan Sakmar @SusanSakmar]

🇬🇷 AI was very much in focus @PosidoniaEvents and this is an amazing stat: AI reached 1 billion people in just two years! 🤯 PC was 27years, web 15, mobile phones 14. The pace of change is increasing! Are you ready? #shipping #Posidonia2026 #LNG

[Susan Sakmar @SusanSakmar]

🇬🇷 With the Strait of Hormuz in focus, shipping has never been more relevant, so great to be back @PosidoniaEvents says @tradewindsnews Julian Bray @HELMEPA. 🚢