(NGI's Shale Daily: May 24, 2013) Analyst Says Ohio Figures Misleading, Predicts Surge in Gas, NGLs
Although investors were disappointed by the Utica Shale production figures released last week by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), a surge in production should be at hand in the play as infrastructure comes online, according to an analysis from RBN Energy LLC.
In a blog post Monday, RBN analyst Sandy Fielden also predicted...
(Open Markets – May 21, 2013) How Rail is Reshaping America’s Energy System (by Debbie Carlson)
http://openmarkets.cmegroup.com/5877/how-rail-is-reshaping-americas-energy-system
Railroads, that 19th-century technology, are having a 21st-century impact on the U.S. crude oil industry.
The swift growth in U.S. petroleum production left the energy industry with a lot of crude oil and nowhere to send it. With pipelines full,...
(Reuters – May 9, 2013) After almost three years of churning bumper profits from the massive price gap between the world's two most actively traded crude oil contracts, traders, refiners, railways and investors are all asking the same question: Is the game finally coming to a close?
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While many refining executives say they expect to continue to have access to cheap crude, oil future prices stretching all the way to next summer suggest a sub-$10 a barrel Brent-WTI spread could be here to stay. On Thursday afternoon in...
(NGI's Shale Daily - April 11, 2013) Shale Growth Causing NatGas Pipeline Replumbing Says Braziel
The day-in and day-out reports from operators ready to build new natural gas pipelines and natural gas liquids (NGL) midstream infrastructure generally have had one thing in common over the past couple of years: most are for the Marcellus Shale. And that's not going to change anytime soon, according to industry executives.
Many of the biggest pipeline systems now carry gas to U.S. East Coast markets. That has to change,...
(Star Tribune – March 3, 2013) Canadian crude oil finds a new pathway through Minnesota (by: David Shaffer)
http://www.startribune.com/business/194698261.html
If President Obama rejects the Keystone XL pipeline, large quantities of the Canadian oil it’s designed to carry will still roll into the United States — on...
