To access RBN Spotcheck graphs you must have a password to rbnenergy.com. Back when you signed up for RBN you probably created an account, received a temporary password and then selected a permanent password. If that’s the case you are good to go. On the other hand, if you signed up in the section that says “Don’t want to register” you just provided your email address. If that’s the case you’ll need to go through the registration process to see Spotcheck. Please send an email to [email protected] if you have problems with the password access. We’ve had a rash of spammer-bot registrations lately and have had to dial up the spam filtering. Sorry if you get caught by a false positive from our filter.
Featured Articles
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The Hydrocarbon Top 40 – And a Big Index of 2012 RBN Blogs
During 2012 we’ve posted over 200 RBN blogs, covering everything from ethylene cracker margins (Ethylene Ethylene, Prettiest margin I ever seen), to northeast natural gas basis (The Mighty Algonquin) to the impact of a major crude pipeline reversal (Oh-Ho-Ho it’s Magic). Now in our last posting of the year it seems appropriate to take a page out of Casey Kasem’s playbook to look back at the top blogs of 2012 based on website hits. And there’s more! In response to many members who have asked, we’ll also provide an index of all of our blogs by topic. And finally we will introduce a new website feature that will give you the ability to see what is trending on the RBN site in real time. BTW, we are not really going to look at 40 blogs. After all it is New Year’s Eve. But we will look a few of the really big winners for 2012.
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Into 2013 - Tracking the Big Trends in Hydrocarbon Markets: Spotcheck
Fundamental to our approach to energy markets at RBN is a view that natural gas, crude oil and NGLs have become much more interdependent than in the days before shale. What happens in gas impacts NGLs, which influences crude oil, which loops back to the natural gas market. We’ve written about these cross-commodity relationships in a number of RBN blogs during 2012, showing the calculations and walking through several spreadsheet models. Now we are taking our analysis one step further. Starting on December 31, 2012, we are launching a new RBN website feature called Spotcheck that displays daily updated graphs of these relationships. Today we’ll describe what is coming next week, and how you can interpret the trends to better understand developments in North America hydrocarbon markets.
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You Make My Look-and-Feel Brand New – New RBN Website Tomorrow
RBN has been in the blogging business for almost three years, and ever since we started these postings one of the most frequent complaints we’ve heard is that “It doesn’t work on my iPhone”. Finally we are fixing that, and many more things too. But as with anything new delivered by internet, there are some things you need to know. So today is a blog about blogs, to make sure all of our members know what we are changing and how to take maximum advantage of our new website’s capabilities.
