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... hub for distributing most Gulf Coast ethane. We’ll get back to this question in a moment, but first, an ethane ... and the more ethane will be extracted as liquid ethane, all things being equal. (See Can't Get There from Here for ... a plant tailgate. To understand how this will play out, we need to consider how much ethane could come from each ...
... we will review the export facilities expected to handle all of the volumes, and the degree to which Gulf Coast ... gas north and east, but many of these projects do not get the gas all the way to LNG and Mexico export outlets, begging the ...
Jeremy Meier - Published July 26, 2016
... Natural Gas Processing Basics To get everyone on the same page, we need to spend just a few minutes on gas processing. Skip ... Measurement, Quantity, Quality, Value Now that we are all up to speed on gas processing, we can get to the ...
Rusty Braziel - Published September 8, 2012
... the market (Bentek forecast), there will no longer be a need for any LNG imports, Canadian imports, inflows from the ... has declined – gas supplies are right next door. And all of this transpires in the winter. How about the ... the winter months. That leaves 3.0 Bcf/d that needs to get out of Dodge, so to speak. Five possibilities come to ...
Rusty Braziel - Published July 8, 2012
... basins to support the operation of the new lines. So, with all that construction, the Permian must be sittin’ pretty ... West Texas Light in the Delaware Basin, or find a way to get a batch of crude from Terminal A in Crane to Pipeline X ... know that while they may want to help a marketer friend in need during the post-Uri supply/demand imbalance (and ...
Housley Carr - Published March 23, 2021
... it’s probably never been easy, but these days trying to get a pipeline project to the finish line might feel a bit ... that now may be impacted by the newly announced guidance. All of this could end up being a real problem for producers ... It also states that FERC may consider other evidence of need, including demand projections, estimated capacity ...
David Braziel - Published March 1, 2022
... critically needed assets is the best way to ensure things get done right and on time. But the do-it-yourself approach ... gathering and processing capacity the producer expects to need and the producer agrees to pay the midstreamer a fee: X ... leave a good bit of the risk with the producer, who after all has committed to make monthly payments to its midstream ...
Housley Carr - Published March 11, 2018
... Pain and Mandate Madness . In those blogs we explained the need to establish a mechanism to track the production of ... like cellulosic biofuel and biomass-based diesel, which get still more complicated.) EISA called for ratcheting up ... –– namely, enabling refiners who did not blend any or all of their gasoline to secure the RINs they needed to prove ...
Housley Carr - Published August 7, 2016
... Note: Some of the slides are included here, but not all. A full pdf of the powerpoint deck is attached. Some ... up 254 Mb/d and here in the Rockies only 59 Mb/d. To get all of that production to market, 13 pipeline projects ... will all of these surplus NGLs find a home? We’ll need to look at each of the products individually. (Slide #3 ...
Rusty Braziel - Published August 19, 2012
... a reasonable idea? For anyone testing a concept, you need a way to ballpark some scenarios for a new pipe. We’ve ... the price at the delivery point), and what will it cost to get there? But to estimate what that cost might be, you have ... for negotiated rates. Also for simplicity’s sake, all volumes are in MMcf/d and rates are in $/MMBtu. Figure ...
Rick Smead - Published June 28, 2016
... questions and consider several terms that have become all-important in this upside-down gas world – backhauls, reversals, and null points. Recap From Get Back to Where You Once Belonged –REX Reversal This blog ... In the winter, Northeast demand is so large that gas will need to flow into the region. But in the summer the region ...
Rusty Braziel - Published October 7, 2013
... for oil in the basin (according to Baker Hughes), and all will come along with sizable quantities of natural gas. Not only does this production need to be moved out of the Permian, the volumes need to find ... but exports from the Waha market will struggle to get much above 1.4 Bcf/d (45% capacity utilization) between ...
Rusty Braziel - Published November 4, 2018
... paradoxically coal to gas switching was down. We’ll get back to that in the paragraphs below. Last year power ... with the nuances of generation unit dispatch, we’ll need to cover some of the basics of power generation ... afternoon / early evening), and sometimes is not used at all. Next we need to understand the Law of the Generation ...
Sandy Fielden - Published July 4, 2012
... some trades done on ICE and those are easily viewable by all. But they were few and far between. The paucity of ... kind of market. And that was the main point. Let’s get back to the current E/P Mix market situation. The ... of this production will go to Canada, but the rest will need to be consumed in the U.S. – or rejected in ...
Rusty Braziel - Published February 14, 2012
... rate per barrel––would the pipeline developer need to charge to recover its costs and earn a reasonable ... the developer will be allowed to charge, once regulators get into it. Today we continue our review of crude oil ... out what the pipe itself would probably cost, inclusive of all the other stuff—pumps, storage, and meters—that go ...
Rick Smead - Published October 17, 2016
... the not too distant future, the Northeast will no longer need imports from Canada. Then imports from the Midwest will be backed out. And eventually all inflows from the U.S. Gulf region could come to a halt. ... of this, the Great Flow Reversal of 2016. Before we get into the nitty-gritty, let’s briefly recap the findings ...
Rusty Braziel - Published July 2, 2012
... hydrocarbon products that we are living with today were all put on the books during the decades of shortage. When ... Sorry ‘bout that. Current State of the Union To get a sense of how the Molecule Laws are impacting the markets for crude oil, natural gas and NGLs, we need to start with just how significant production increases ...
David Braziel - Published January 23, 2014
... capacity, midstreamers and potential crude oil shippers need to examine–– early on –– the likely capital cost ... to transport crude to market. In other words, despite all the pipeline infrastructure already in place (see Figure ... we could with a gas pipeline. But as we’ll show, we can get to a reasonable ballpark in terms of cost for pipelines ...
Rick Smead - Published August 22, 2016
... into interesting, thought-provoking narratives that get to the bottom line without overwhelming you with tedious ... today’s chaotic, rapidly evolving energy markets, you need deep experience to put the numbers in a meaningful ... to fit the customers’ needs and can make the best use of all the information available to analyze and understand ...
Johnny Martin - Published December 1, 2020
... winter of 2017-18, from about 7.1 Bcf/d to 7.8 Bcf/d, but all spring it’s remained relatively flat, never averaging ... that producers, gas processors and midstream companies may need to consider if things get really tight. Permian takeaway constraints have been a ...
Housley Carr - Published June 19, 2018