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Charge of the Light Brigade – Turner Mason Assesses the Onslaught of Light Sweet Crudes
According to a new study just released by Turner Mason titled “North American Crude and Condensate Outlook” (NACCO), U.S.
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It’s Been Three Long Years, Do You Still Want Me? Can Brent and WTI Get Together Again?
Three years ago in June 2010, prices for the international benchmark Brent crude and the US domestic benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) traded within $1/Bbl of each other.
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Last Train to Bakkenville? Will Narrowing Price Differentials Kill the Crude-by-Rail Boom?
Narrowing price differentials between inland crudes tied to West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and coastal crudes tied to Brent are resulting in a move away from rail shipments and back towards pipelines by producers in North Dakota.
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The Enbridge SAX and East Gulf Pipeline Band – Music to Canadian Crude Producer’s Ears!
Two separate companies launched open seasons for complimentary pipelines last week (June 5, 2013) that would offer at least 420 Mb/d of capacity to ship heavy Canadian crude to the Gulf Coast by early 2016.
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Too Wrong For Too Long – The NGL Surge We Didn’t Expect
The production of natural gas liquids (NGLs) increased twice as quickly as expected just two years ago in 2011. Current production of 3.2 MMb/d (gas plants + refineries) was only supposed to be achieved in 2016 and now the forecast is for 4 MMb/d by then.
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Some Plans Are Bigger Than Others – Alaska LNG Exports
Aside from dwindling oil production (that we discussed last week) the State of Alaska is also home to 35 Tcf of proven conventional natural gas reserves.
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Breakin' It Up & Breakin' It Down – PADD 1 NGLs Storage Capacity: Supply and Demand
Last week we started a blog series looking to answer the question - Are we likely to run into storage issues with NGLs while we are waiting for infrastructure and demand side projects such as export terminals and petrochemical facilities to be built out? Today we are going to take a deeper
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Come on, Feel the Noise: Natural Gas Storage - The Signal and the Noise
A lot of natural gas storage follows a time honored pattern – put gas in during the summer and take it out during the winter. But it is getting much more complicated than that. Developments in natural gas production – particularly in the Appalachian (Marcellus) region will be driving
RBN Future of Fuels
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Anchored Down in Anchorage – The ANS Crude Challenge
This week BP announced plans to spend $1 Billion increasing production at the company’s Prudhoe Bay Alaska field.
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What Becomes of the Empty Pipelines – Markets for TransCanada’s Mainline Oil Conversion
The Energy East pipeline project proposes to convert part of the TransCanada Mainline natural gas system and add new pipeline in eastern Canada to connect oil receipts in Alberta with refineries in Ontario, Quebec and on the Atlantic seaboard.
