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WSJ – Getting Back to Work-Energy: The Gas Glut

Tuesday, 09/04/2012

(Wall Street Journal – September 4, 2012) Getting Back to Work-Energy: The Gas Glut

The summer of 2012 may well be remembered as the moment when the business world accepted that abundant and inexpensive natural gas wasn't going away anytime soon. It also marked the turning point when the U.S. energy market began to shake from the consequences.

Coal is hemorrhaging market share to natural gas in power generation. A growing number of companies are switching from diesel fuel to natural gas to run their vehicles. Meanwhile, the renewable-energy sector is facing an uphill fight in...

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NGI - U.S. Awash in NGL and Crude Supplies, Braziel Says

Wednesday, 08/22/2012

(NGI's Daily Gas Price Index - 8/22/12) - With heavy ramifications for Midcontinent energy infrastructure and eventual exports, the United States will find itself with oversupplies of both domestically produced liquids and crude oil from now through 2017, market consultant/analyst Rusty Braziel of RBN Energy LLC told a session of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) annual meeting in Denver earlier this month (Aug. 13-16).

All of this has significant pricing and operational implications for the U.S. energy markets as the...

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Marcellus hurting REX, Rockies producers should look west: analyst

Friday, 08/17/2012

(Platts Gas Daily August 17, 2012) Rocky Mountain gas producers need to start finding additional markets on the Gulf Coast or West Coast because gas flowing east on the Rockies Express Pipeline is being displaced by new volumes from the Marcellus Shale, a veteran gas analyst said Thursday in Denver. “The competition is coming from the Marcellus,” RBN Energy President Rusty Braziel told the Colorado Oil & Gas Association’s Energy Epicenter conference. “The Marcellus is growing like crazy and it’s going to continue to be crazy for the next few years.”

As a result, “REX won’t be...

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Argus: Marcellus holding up production for the rest of the Country

Tuesday, 07/03/2012

(Argus 7/3/2012) The Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania and West Virginia “has been holding up production for the rest of the country” in 2012, offsetting a downward trend in combined natural gas output from all other US basins since January, RBN Energy president Rusty Braziel said today.

Competition for pipeline space in the mid-Atlantic region during periods of peak cooling demand from customers withdrawing gas from storage and producers moving Marcellus shale volumes to the market...

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