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It’s still August, but there already is crispness in the Wisconsin mornings. And to a propaner, that’s a signal that the heating season is on its way. It is time to get those supplies lined out, and to make sure that customers are ready for the winter. But Wisconsin is a long wa
<p>Plenty of new natural gas shale reserves have been discovered in Western Canada. In British Columbia (BC) there are four basins (Horn River, Montney, Liard and Cordova) with estimated reserves in place exceeding 1,200 Tcf.</p>
We’ve talked here frequently about the two ends of the Natural Gas Liquids market. On one end we have the commercial aspects of the business – things like pricing, differentials, processing economics and feedstock selection calculations. At the other end, there is the operational infr
<p>Domestic light sweet crude from the Eagle Ford is now arriving at Gulf Coast refining centers as infrastructure investments come on line. The marketplace has yet to formalize a transparent price mechanism.
<p>On Thursday of last week I spoke at the Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA) ‘Energy Epicenter’ conference in Denver. The topic for our panel was Crude and Mid-Stream Liquids, and was focused on the opportunities and challenges inherent in the rapid growth of U.S.</
<p>We just finished up the hottest July on record. Very high temperatures cause air conditioning demand to go ballistic.
<p>Over the past two weeks, crude oil prices at Clearbrook and Guernsey have, for the second time this year, closed the gap between the Bakken and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) prices. Bakken prices are up and there is a simple explanation why. New rail terminals - both
<p>The natural gas supply demand story has been dominated all year by the record storage overhang from 2011 and whether 2012 gas storage injections could continue until October or November without hitting the wall - i.e. completely filling storage capacity.</p>
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<p>Eagle Ford crude production is increasing rapidly and the rush to deliver it to market has created an infrastructure boom. US Gulf imports are already declining as Eagle Ford and Bakken crude start to reach the Gulf Coast in significant quantities.</p>
In August 2011 there were 900 rigs drilling for natural gas in the U.S. As of last week 405 gas rigs had disappeared and only 495 were left. As we all know, when gas prices fell, so did the natural gas rig count as producers moved capital budget dollars and rig crews to crude oil.&nbs
