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... today’s RBN blog, we look at the potential implications for LNG buyers and producers around the world, the options ... — all LNG plants have spare capacity — with the result that a short-term market has developed, generally defined as ... buyers in terms of the volumes and durations to which they can commit. Consequently, producers cannot take the automatic ...
Richard Pratt - Published March 3, 2025
... bets on clean hydrogen, seeing it as a replacement fuel for some hard-to-abate industries and putting it at the heart ... groups argued for looser guidelines around the PTC that would allow the clean hydrogen industry to grow quickly, ... a 51-49 margin in the Senate, where Vice President Harris can also provide a tie-breaking vote.) None of the grand ...
Jason Lindquist - Published March 24, 2024
... Everett terminal and the Mystic power plant, has said it can’t keep Everett open next year when the Mystic plant ... it’s one of the only facilities on the East Coast that can accept LNG from giant tankers and regasify it for local use. In addition to the Mystic generating station ...
Lisa Shidler - Published December 5, 2023
... Canada to the U.S. — and it did. You’d also expect that L3R coming online would narrow the price spread between ... years, is another reminder that oil price differentials can be affected by many factors other than pipeline capacity ... episodes typically resulted in deeper price discounts for Western Canadian Select (WCS) and other crude oil streams ...
Martin King - Published December 26, 2021
Housley Carr For much of the 2010s, the U.S. midstream sector has been on ... few years is either in place or under construction. But that doesn’t mean things won’t stay interesting — far ... spent. This return on capital employed (ROCE) metric can then be broken down to asset-level returns — dubbed the ...
Housley Carr - Published January 7, 2020
... along the Gulf Coast will reduce the share of ethane that is “rejected” into Permian natural gas. In today’s ... all eyes have been on the wide and volatile price spreads for energy commodities produced in the Permian. Pipeline ... is critical — is that not all Permian NGL production can get to all of the outbound pipes. For example, most of ...
Housley Carr - Published May 22, 2018
... — rapidly expands across all sorts of applications. That statement is certainly the top buzz factor in today’s ... the intermittent nature of wind and solar means that for many facilities, it can't happen, at least for the short-to-medium term hyped-up ...
Rusty Braziel - Published July 30, 2024
Housley Carr The clock is ticking for international shipping companies, cruise lines and others ... more stringent standard for bunker fuel sulfur content that will kick in just over two years from now. While many ... or methanol. They also could try to kick the compliance can down the road by obtaining a waiver for ...
Housley Carr - Published December 14, 2017
... summer, storage in the west, a region vitally important for balancing the North American gas market during high ... those closer to home in the U.S. and Canada, making sure that there is enough gas in the ground for the next heating ... in each of these factors and summing up the result, we can estimate the incremental change in gas available for ...
Martin King - Published June 29, 2022
... the past 10 years has created extraordinary opportunities for startup companies, most of them backed by private equity. ... Each of us could cite several examples of midstreamers that, with a combination of guile and grit, developed ... production and, if they play their cards right, also can make these midstreamers attractive takeover targets as ...
Housley Carr - Published August 14, 2025
... of CO 2 have been used in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) for decades. And, with new financial incentives and a renewed ... action, things are changing fast — so quickly, in fact, that the carbon-capture industry may be poised for ... Targeting High-Purity Sources Facilities emitting CO 2 can generally be put into two buckets: high-purity and ...
Jason Lindquist - Published September 4, 2022
... weather descends on Texas this week, no doubt many Texans can’t help but flash back to Uri’s devastating impact. ... past couple of years to unravel the confluence of factors that led to just about every domino in the electricity and ... industries, despite how dependent each is on the other. For example, there were gas facilities that weren’t ...
Sheetal Nasta - Published November 16, 2022
... ambitions. These factors, which will fuel the prospects for constrained supply and higher-for-longer demand, have ... and carrots to help meet them — there’s no guarantee that the ambitious targets for renewables, energy ... like the Covid pandemic and Russia’s war on Ukraine can blow big holes in energy transition plans and that the ...
John Auers - Published February 19, 2023
... have been making headlines globally on a daily basis for a while now. Canada’s energy industry has been increasingly contributing to that newsfeed this year, with two large projects announced in ... break down the oil and gas sector’s emissions so that we can isolate oil sands emissions, again using data from the ...
Martin King - Published July 27, 2021
... in the Eagle Ford play in South Texas — growth that has since subsided. Now, Corpus is preparing for a coming onslaught of crude from the red-hot Permian, ... As of today, there’s only one major crude pipeline that can move Permian crude to Corpus: Plains All American’s ...
Housley Carr - Published May 22, 2017
Not What I Had in Mind - Are Canadian E&Ps Struggling to Meet the Rising Need for Oil Sands Diluent?
... supplies of diluent, a variety of light hydrocarbons that, when blended with molasses-like bitumen, reduce the ... slowly than it was a few years ago, and increased demand for imported condensate could result in those pipelines being ... diluent is any form of light liquid hydrocarbon that can be mixed with bitumen that reduce its viscosity and allow ...
Martin King - Published December 11, 2022
... Energy CEO Chris Wright as Energy Secretary confirmed that “drill, baby, drill” will be a mantra in the new ... Q3 2024 results of the major U.S. E&Ps we follow and look for early clues about how their senior executives might react ... prior quarter results to remove Southwestern until we can fill the data gap. As shown in Figure 4, production (gray ...
Nick Cacchione - Published December 3, 2024
... to the U.S. have moved lower in recent months, a trend that seems likely to continue with the May 27 expiration of ... if not yet official, the development adds new challenges for Gulf Coast refiners that process heavy crude. In ... Venezuela. Source: Kpler However, as we discussed in You Can’t Always Get What You Want , the second Trump ...
Lisa Shidler - Published June 3, 2025
... gas prices have been breaking hearts in the Permian Basin for many years, with pipeline development struggling to keep ... needed soon, as our forecasts indicate a strong likelihood that capacity constraints will return in the early months of ... it’s not by much. Pipeline maintenance and outages can erase the region’s excess exit capacity and send it ...
John Abeln - Published December 16, 2024
... the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), RINs act as a subsidy that enables the production of renewable fuels that would not ... up recently in the renewable fuels ecosystem that prices for a particular variety of RIN could be headed for a crash. ... being sold as fuel. Hydrogenated RD, on the other hand, can be used as a drop-in replacement for conventional diesel. ...
George Hoekstra - Published July 5, 2023