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You've Got Another Thing Comin', Part 2 - Trans Mountain Expansion Faces More Logistical Challenges
The 590-Mb/d Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) project, which is inching closer to its planned early 2024 completion, has been one of the most eagerly anticipated energy infrastructure projects in recent Canadian memory.
First Reactor Goes Online at Georgia’s Vogtle Plant, But Will Delays, Cost Overruns Doom Others?


They Work Hard for the Money - The Latest Trends in Setting Oil and Gas Companies' Executive Pay
Unlike most of us, CEOs and other senior executives at U.S. oil and gas companies derive the lion’s share of their compensation not from salaries, but from bonus and incentive programs tied to performance targets set by their boards of directors.
Williams Touts Transco Expansions as MVP Moves Forward
US Rig Count Continues Slide Into August, Drops to 659
Earnings Calls Shed Light on Last Week's Ethane Roller Coaster


Smoke on the Water - As IMO Targets Additional Emissions Reductions, LNG Carriers Play a Role
Cargo ships move more than 80% of the world’s internationally traded goods, making them essential to the global economy, but they’ve traditionally been fueled by heavy fuel oil or marine gasoil, both of which are emissions-intensive.

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.
Crude Stocks Plunge As Exports Spike


Nothing Compares 2 U - Enterprise's NGL and Petchem Distribution and Export Machine
Enterprise Products Partners doesn’t just extract mixed NGLs from associated gas at processing plants, transport that Y-grade to the NGL hub at Mont Belvieu, and fractionate NGLs into “purity products” like ethane, propane and butanes.