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Despite sagging oil and natural gas liquids (NGL) prices, investments in expanding midstream infrastructure continue in the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford.
Last week’s clarification from the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) about the process required to export lease condensate may make exports easier on paper but it won’t stimulate export demand.
Welcome to 2015! No, the last few months of 2014 were not a dream – or nightmare, depending on your perspective. Crude oil prices really did come crashing to earth, sucking down NGL prices in the process. And natural gas prices followed, falling to $3/MMbtu last week. Pric
Time to sober up. Not from excessive New Year’s Eve reveling, but instead from the past five years of euphoria in the shale oil and gas markets.
In time honored RBN blogging tradition – we’ve been at this blogging business three years –we look back today at the 250 blogs posted this year to see which ones had the highest hit rates. The number of hits any blog gets tells you a lot about what is going on in the energy markets – which
It would be an understatement to say that the worldwide market for liquefied natural gas (LNG) is in flux.
It’s been a big year for oil production from the Bakken formation in North Dakota with output passing the 1 MMb/d mark in April and expected to close out 2014 at 1.25 MMb/d.
It remains to be seen to what extent the recent crash in oil prices--and the sympathetic decline in prices for natural gas liquids (NGLs) - will lead to major drilling and production pull-backs in some U.S. shale plays.
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Most of the heavy crude oil arriving at the busy Hardisty hub in Alberta that throughputs up to 3.5 MMb/d – is already blended with diluent supplied closer to the production fields to the north.
Crude oil production in the Gulf of Mexico is on the rebound, and headed into record territory as the fifth anniversary of the Macondo blowout approaches.
