After the sale of BENTEK Energy, Rusty Braziel founds RBN Energy and starts writing free daily energy blogs.
Finding an audience hungry for RBN’s straightforward style, the blog quickly gains traction and consulting deals start to roll in.
RBN introduces the School of Energy format of conferences. The interactive model proves successful, prompting future sessions of this series.
RBN establishes Advisory Services Practice for work in regulatory affairs such as rulemakings, rate case filing, litigation and settlement negotiation.
With our library of blogs and reports ever expanding, RBN begins offering subscribers premium access to data and reports.
RBN launches Drill Down Reports offering comprehensive, detailed assessments of major shifts in energy markets.
Rusty publishes his first book, The Domino Effect, about how to interpret the changes brought on by the Shale Revolution. It becomes a best-seller, rising to the #1 spot on Amazon energy books rankings.
By this point in time, RBN has developed insightful fundamental analysis around the most frequented topics in energy. We begin publishing market-specific reports as a vehicle for sharing that knowledge with our readers.
Rusty appears on CNBC’s Mad Money with Jim Cramer who proclaims him the “smartest man in the oil patch,” introducing RBN to a whole new audience.
Breaking from the School of Energy format of conferences, RBN puts on its first ‘Con.’ PermiCon attracts more than 700 attendees.
In 2020, with live conferences postponed or cancelled, RBN hosts roundtable discussions with the inaugural session focusing on Canadian energy markets.
As COVID and OPEC+ troubles hammer the oil-patch, RBN covers the impacts and reasons for the events as they unfold. On Black Monday, April 20, 2020 (when crude prices went negative), RBN becomes the go-to source for a market scrambling for answers.
RBN’s daily blog is now received by more than 30,000 subscribers every day.
RBN launches Renewable Energy Analytics (REA) to track developments in this surging sector of the energy market.
In the summer of 2022, RBN joins up with John and Robert Auers to expand commodity coverage to include refined fuels.
RBN’s daily blog is now received by more than 40,000 subscribers every day.
