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.


Gimme Three Steps - The Top 10 RBN Blogs of 2024
Many of this year’s most popular RBN blogs gravitated toward familiar energy market themes — rising exports, shifts in oil production, weak natural gas prices, surprising NGL pricing dynamics and the like.
Fireworks in Natural Gas Futures in Advance of New Year’s Eve
ConocoPhillips' Nuna Project produces first oil


Movin' On Up - Gray Oak Stands Out as the Only Permian Crude Pipeline to Greenlight an Expansion
As crude oil production in the Permian continues to grow and pipelines from West Texas to the Gulf Coast edge closer to full utilization, it’s becoming a challenge for producers and shippers alike.
U.S. Propane Inventories Draw Largest on Record Despite Lower Exports
Refinery Demand Back Up As Inventories Fall
Canadian Drilling – Rig Counts Hit a Low for the Holidays

NATGAS Permian is a weekly natural gas fundamentals analysis focusing entirely on the key market drivers within the Permian basin. The report contains details and forecasts around natural gas production, demand, pricing, and a summary of pipeline outflows and capacities from the Permian to neighboring regions.
Increased Efficiency Boosts U.S. Crude Oil Production as Rig Count Declines


On The Road Again - How Cow Manure is Helping to Fuel Heavy-Duty Fleets Across North America
A primary objective of the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), when it was expanded back in 2007, was to stimulate by 2022 the production of at least 16 billion gallons/year of gasoline and diesel made from cellulosic biomass in conversion plants resembling small refineries.