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Here Comes The Gas Again – Why Henry Hub is Sitting Pretty
At first glance, the recent purchase of a natural gas pipeline network in southern Louisiana by EnLink Midstream from Chevron does not look very exciting.
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.
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Crude Falls To Pieces – How Far Will it Tumble?
Crude prices have fallen worldwide by about 20 percent since June 2014, as increasing supplies have not balanced with lackluster demand worldwide. Here in the U.S.
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Condensate City – Eagle Ford Crude Infrastructure – Part 4 – Harvest, Martin, Trafigura and Buckeye
Just four years ago (October 2010) the Eagle Ford Basin was producing less than 100 Mb/d of crude oil.
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A Man, a Plan, an Expanded Panama Canal—A Boost for LNG, LPG Transport
The long-awaited Panama Canal expansion is expected to be complete and operational in January 2016, more than a year late and just in time to allow much larger liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers to move product from Sabine Pass through the canal to Asian and Latin American customers.
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Starship Enterprise - Resistance is Futile! Gulf Coast Crude and LPG Terminal Merger
Last Wednesday (October 1, 2014) pipeline and NGL giant Enterprise Products Partners LP (Enterprise) announced step one of a two step multi-billion dollar deal to merge their assets with competing major liquids storage and terminal partnership Oiltanking Partners (Oiltanking).
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We’ll Find Out In the Long Run – Prospects for increased ANS Exports
During the last week of September, reports surfaced that Alaskan oil producer ConocoPhillips (COP) has recently exported an 800 MBbl cargo of Alaska North Slope (ANS) crude to South Korea.
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Hey Mr. D.J. Keep Playin' That Song! – Niobrara Denver-Julesburg Crude Takeaway Expansions
The Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin of the Niobrara shale in Northeast Colorado is one of the hottest crude plays around at the moment. RBN expects DJ Basin crude production to nearly double from 235 Mb/d in August 2014 to 450 Mb/d by the end of 2019 – an increase of 215 Mb/d.
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EOR Don’t Get No Respect—Power Projects Capturing CO2 Boost EOR
Enhanced oil recovery is like CPR and a pacemaker to an oil field on the brink of death. Once-vibrant wells whose production had declined to a trickle can be amazingly revived when “flooded” with large volumes of CO2.
RBN Propane Billboard U.S.
The monthly and weekly Propane Billboard reports feature insightful commentary and analysis of historical and anticipated trends in the U.S with a deep dive into the propane supply and demand balance by PADD. It includes a custom 1-year forecast with commentary and analysis on emerging market opportunities.
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Blue Hawaii—Is a Broad-based Shift from Oil to LNG in the Cards?
Hawaiian Electric’s plan to shift quickly from oil to liquefied natural gas (LNG) based natural gas as its primary power plant fuel is ambitious, but is it broad enough to benefit from the economies of scale that a more comprehensive, state-wide LNG program might provide?
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Condensate City – Eagle Ford Crude Infrastructure – Part 3 – Plains and Enterprise
By Q2 of 2015, the Plains and Enterprise joint venture pipeline in the Eagle Ford will carry up to 470 Mb/d of crude and condensate to market in Houston and Corpus Christi including barrels shipped from the Permian Basin on the Cactus pipeline.
