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Martin King The February 2021 polar vortex will be one for the natural gas record books in the U.S. and Canada — ... gas buyers have jockeyed for molecules from anywhere they can get them. Gas exports to the U.S. have reached highs not ... In the past week, we have been discussing the impacts that the extreme cold snap of February 2021 have had on ...
Martin King - Published February 21, 2021
... Mainline, by far the largest transportation network for growing Western Canadian crude oil supplies to the U.S. ... recently received regulatory approval for the tolls that it charges shippers for using the massive pipeline ... Pipelines. Source: RBN Crude oil on the Mainline can also continue to more distant destinations on other ...
Martin King - Published March 21, 2024
... is often seen as a badge of honor, the latest cold blast that descended on Canada just before Christmas — and during Christmas in the U.S. — was another one for the natural gas record books. By almost every measure, ... part of this story is that late January and early February can be colder than late December on average, so another round ...
Martin King - Published January 3, 2023
Rusty Braziel Are you ready for Trumpian turmoil? Regardless of your opinion of the ... a break and are revisiting the New Year’s Day blog that features our energy prognostications for 2025. If you ... past predictions panned out. Yes, we check our work! You can see how we did in our 2024 Prognostications Scorecard ...
Rusty Braziel - Published January 19, 2025
... 2016 and 2020. Where will prices go next? Well, if we knew that, we wouldn’t be writing blogs. As we’ve seen in the ... just too much going on in global markets to think you can know where gas prices will be 10 years, five years or ... In today’s RBN blog, we’ll explore these scenarios for domestic natural gas prices and what sort of ...
David Braziel - Published August 24, 2023
... co-located near new renewable generation sources, which can also boost grid reliability, as we explain in today’s RBN blog. Demand for data centers (see Storm Front ), which are home to hundreds or even thousands of networked computers that process, store and share data, has grown significantly ...
Ellen Chang - Published April 23, 2025
... on which the industry was founded and still accounts for more than 60% of LNG trade. More recently, the portfolio ... model has emerged, pursued by upstream oil and gas majors, that would allow them to monetize their gas reserves by ... LNG terminals with copious amounts of storage, which can be used to manage a trading portfolio, including ...
Richard Pratt - Published April 4, 2024
Jason Lindquist Economic sanctions can be a powerful tool to punish a country or group, ... involve an essential commodity like crude oil. Imposed for a variety of reasons (military, political, social), ... oil and the significant challenges in designing a cap that is effective and enforceable. Russia’s catastrophic ...
Jason Lindquist - Published September 21, 2022
... in the last year or so. It could be argued, though, that producers in the offshore Gulf of Mexico (GOM) have ... August, production fell to less than 1.2 MMb/d, the lowest for that month in seven years. Many new projects were delayed ... GOM producers experienced in 2020 and whether better days can be expected in the future. As we said a few months ago in ...
Housley Carr - Published April 22, 2021
It's All Part of a Bigger Plan - The Case for Energy Transfer's Blue Marlin Crude Oil Export Project
... and a half years since Energy Transfer submitted its plan for the Blue Marlin crude oil export project to the U.S. ... most of its time under the surface and out of sight. But that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been forward movement on ... fast and a preference among many shippers for VLCCs that can be fully loaded without reverse lightering, Blue Marlin ...
Housley Carr - Published May 14, 2023
... Project, better known as TMX, will add exit capacity for Western Canadian crude oil production and is expected to ... examine the Gulf of Mexico production and imported grades that might become stand-ins for the “lost” Canadian ... lighter hydrocarbon (diluent) to make “dilbit,” so it can easily flow through a pipeline; others may be upgraded to ...
Sheela Tobben - Published January 15, 2024
... producers just coming off big deals are divesting assets that don’t fit their strategies, or reaching agreements to ... energy markets. As we said a couple of months ago in Money Can Buy It , there was a record $120 billion in upstream M&A ... #1 condensate producer in eastern Ohio’s Utica Shale — for $5.6 billion, inclusive of EAP’s debt. We explained in ...
Housley Carr - Published June 16, 2025
... 1,413-MW Mystic Generating Station, a longtime workhorse for New England, shut its doors for good May 31. Located in ... of Public Utilities (DPU) recently approved new contracts that will keep Everett LNG open for at least six more years. ... role in stabilizing gas supplies in New England — it can supply up to 35% of regional gas demand on peak winter ...
Lisa Shidler - Published August 12, 2024
... system — the Olmeca refinery — are causing headaches for global buyers of its crudes. Few are convinced that the plant near the country’s key Dos Bocas oil port is ... ships out its heavy crude because most of its refineries can’t handle it. As shown in Figure 3 below, a large ...
Sheela Tobben - Published May 6, 2024
RBN Team For the first time in two years (almost to the day), the ... move to wean the rich nations off Russian supplies, saying that gas projects "can be appropriate to help address potential market ...
RBN Team - Published May 22, 2023
... 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 24, 2024
Martin King Wider price discounts for Western Canadian heavy crude oil have been weighing on ... might be to increase pipeline export capacity to ensure that rising oil production has more options to reach markets. ... words, three basic egress options are available: barrels can go to local refineries, be loaded onto rail cars for ...
Martin King - Published November 14, 2023
... 2016 and 2020. Where will prices go next? Well, if we knew that, we wouldn’t be writing blogs. As we’ve seen in the ... just too much going on in global markets to think you can know where gas prices will be 10 years, five years or ... In today’s RBN blog, we’ll explore these scenarios for domestic natural gas prices and what sort of ...
David Braziel - Published August 31, 2023
... “Putin’s price hike,” and the Russian president can certainly claim some of the blame. His invasion of ... barrels per day of product supply. However, prices for refined products were already rising before his late ... per day (MMb/d) of refining capacity since 1995. Over that period, U.S. plants evolved into the most competitive ...
Robert Auers - Published June 26, 2022
... and anybody with barrels is scouring every nook and cranny for any additional volume that can be brought to market. Some of that may come from ...
David Braziel - Published March 13, 2022