RBN’s Daily Energy Blog and Insights sharpen your energy IQ through fundamentals-based analysis that makes sense of North America’s energy market dynamics.
The Permian, the world’s largest NGL-producing region, is poised for continued growth across the NGL value chain. With domestic demand offering limited room to grow, can downstream infrastructure keep pace? Today, we examine the projects helping turn rising Permian production into global supply.
There’s a horse race among Gulf Coast gas storage developers to provide the tens of billions of cubic feet of incremental space that will be needed by the early 2030s. Out front are the owners of existing salt cavern storage. But which brownfield projects have that special something?
The NATGAS Appalachia weekly report provides the data and insights to monitor the northeast natural gas market’s twists and turns and identify the risks and opportunities along the way, including tracking supply-demand trends, outbound capacity and their impact on takeaway pipeline utilization, and regional prices.
In Western Canada the active gas-directed rig count was unchanged at 65 rigs, while the oil-directed rig count rose for the fourth straight week, inching up by two to 150 rigs, for the week ended October 23, according to Baker Hughes data.
Kinder Morgan added $5.4 billion of new projects in Q3, bringing its backlog to a record $14.4 billion.
Meta accelerated its spending on capital expenditures in Q3 2026 as it seeks to speed the adoption of its compute-intensive Muse AI agent, the company said during its earnings call on October 21.
Devon Energy announced it is selling its Eagle Ford assets to Crescent Energy for $4.22 billion in cash. In today’s blog, we look at why Devon is leaving South Texas while Crescent doubles down, and we preview our detailed analysis of the deal, available on the Novi Intelligence portal.
Crude Oil Permian provides detailed analysis of the fundamental drivers impacting the Permian Basin crude oil market including weekly data, analysis and market intelligence updates of: Permian crude oil supply and demand, pipeline outflows and capacity, prices, and infrastructure updates.
Woodside Energy has completed the strategic review of its Beaumont New Ammonia facility and will initiate a formal process to reduce its investment, the company said during its Q3 2026 earnings report published October 21. The company announced plans for the review during its H1 2026 earnings presentation in August.
Freight rates are sky-high. Shipping crude oil from the U.S. Gulf Coast to China on a VLCC cost more than $80 million earlier this month, double what it was in September and 5X a year ago. Today, we look at the unique combination of factors that are helping drive freight rates to record highs.
Western Canada saw large drops in LPG inventories in September, especially butanes, according to data released by the Canadian Energy Regulator on October 15.
