Down to only two months left in 2020. Whew! We’ll all be relieved to see this one disappear in the rear-view mirror. It’s been an extreme roller coaster ride for oil and gas — from the onset of the COVID pandemic and the crude price collapse in the spring, to withering demand for transportation fuels, to one hurricane after another, to chaotic swings in natural gas prices. And being thrashed about by all this turmoil are the natural gas liquids, with each NGL product taking its own wild ride through erratic market conditions. It’s been a challenge just keeping up with what is going on. At RBN, we’ve been working on a new app to address this challenge, and today we are rolling it out to you, as a reader of our daily blog. We are talking about access to everything from spot and futures prices, to market statistics, to reports on intra-day pricing, and to market alerts as they happen. Sound interesting? If so, hang on to your hat and read on in this RBN product advertorial.
We call our new app ClusterX. It’s available today for you to test drive, either on your mobile device or any PC or Mac web browser. If this seems vaguely familiar, it’s because we discussed a friends-and-family release of ClusterX for some of our subscribers a few months back. And, in recent weeks, we’ve had pre-release ads on the website. Today, we are rolling out the real thing.
ClusterX organizes and displays energy data. That data includes prices, news alerts, differentials, market reports, industry statistics, blogs, forecasts — all kinds of information you need to track. If you were wondering, the name is a reference to the underlying technology, which clusters related information together, so that the most important data for a given topic is front and center, and other, related data is organized around that central theme. You get market alerts as they happen. And you get the app and data at a fraction of the price you would expect to pay for this kind of information access.
About the song
"Keepin' Up" was written by Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry, Ronnie Rogers, and Greg Fowler. It appears as the first song on disc one of Alabama's two-disc collection of hits, For the Record. It was released as the second single from the album in November 1998, and went to #14 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, and #69 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. Personnel on the record were: Randy Owen (lead vocals), Teddy Gentry (bass, backing vocals), Jeff Cook (backing vocals), Mark Casstevens (acoustic guitar), Brent Mason (electric guitar), Steve Nathan (keyboards), John Barlow Jarvis (piano, Hammond B-3 organ), Larry Franklin (fiddle), and Lonnie Wilson (drums, percussion). The song was produced by Alabama and Don Cook.
For the Record is a two-disc, 44-song collection of greatest hits by Alabama. Released in August 1998, the LP went to #2 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, and #13 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. Two singles were released from the album. It has been certified 5X Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Alabama is an American country and Southern rock band formed in Fort Payne, AL, in 1969. The band was originally named Wildcountry, and toured the South playing covers under that name for several years. They changed their name to Alabama in 1977, when their focus changed to writing and performing original material. The band has released 26 studio albums, four live albums, 21 compilation albums, and 74 singles. Alabama has had 34 #1 records on the country charts, and sold over 75 million records worldwide. They have won 15 Academy of Country Music Awards, 18 American Music Awards, one Billboard Award, seven Country Music Association Awards, and two Grammy Awards. Alabama disbanded in 2004, but reunited again in 2010, and have continued to record and tour together with the original lineup of cousins Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry, and Jeff Cook.
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