As we reported the ExxonMobil offshoot recently kicked off a campaign to sell the 125,000-dwt Kodiak(built 1978) and Sierra (built 1979) with a request for non-binding proposals.

Today, sources told TradeWinds half-a-dozen US product tanker owners and private equity firms that are active in the Jones Act market have already expressed an interest despite the duo’s age.

Some say the current list of serious candidates includes the likes of Alterna Capital Partners, Kinder Morgan and Seacor Holdings but efforts to confirm these claims were not immediately successful at the time of writing Wednesday.

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