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... stated that recent problems suggest that more resources need to be allocated to planning for the increased use of ... regulatory control over Interstate gas pipelines but not all the smaller intrastate pipelines. Nevertheless given ... burning gas has accelerated the discussion. If we don’t get this fixed, it will be as bad as Dr. Peter Venkman’s ...
Bob Bookstaber - Published January 17, 2013
... The saga of Western Canadian producers struggling to get increasing volumes of heavy crude to market in the US has ... injected steam so that the oil flows. More than half of all extracted bitumen is then upgraded to synthetic crude oil ... light hydrocarbon components that they do not typically need (see Turner Mason and the Goblet of Light and Heavy ). ...
Sandy Fielden - Published September 22, 2013
... But it is mostly out of sight, out of mind for all but the most actively involved players in the physical ... mean for both global and domestic crude markets. Before we get into the weeds — which we’ll need to do, given that we’re talking about Brent — ...
David Braziel - Published July 11, 2023
... Braziel Negative Permian gas prices. Wall Street sours on all things energy. E&Ps and midstreamers forced by capital ... of challenges hit the market in 2019. And it is going to get a lot more complicated as we enter the new decade. There ... predict what is going to happen next, right? Nah. All we need to do is stick our collective RBN necks out one more ...
Rusty Braziel - Published January 1, 2020
... differentials, and oh yes – what’s going to happen to all those pipelines? Crazy talk? We don’t think so. ... increases and plumbing considerations – the system will need some inflows to continue. But that will not last ... the value of natural gas geographically will change. Get ready for a wild ride in the gas market. It's the End ...
Rusty Braziel - Published December 19, 2012
... help determine if ethane rejection makes sense. (We’ll get to these issues in later episodes of this blog series.) ... Tailgate Blues . So to get everyone on the same page, we need to spend a few minutes on the basics of gas ... and sometimes barge. Note in the inset map that almost all gas processing plants are located adjacent to major ...
... gas, NGLs and refined products. It has underscored the need for industry participants to see and understand those ... markets. The fact is, the U.S. is now consuming just about all the domestically sourced hydrocarbons it can handle, and ... September 19-20, 2023, at The Houstonian hotel in Houston. Get ready to immerse yourself in the interconnected world of ...
Housley Carr - Published July 10, 2023
... season: essentially that injections into storage will need to be consistently below what they have been ... by weather, which is a perpetual wildcard. But one way to get around that uncertainty and evaluate the prospects for ... hotter than normal for the balance of summer and all the other potentially bullish factors materialize as ...
Sheetal Nasta - Published May 8, 2016
... so under normal circumstances it’s a happy time, when all participants across the supply chain are making ... unconstrained market, price solves all problems. If we need the barrels here in the U.S., the price here will just ... year, but down when compared with last winter. We’ll get back to that winter export trend in a minute. The dashed ...
Rusty Braziel - Published August 23, 2021
... U.S. Ending Stocks of Total Gasoline (MBbl) Before we get going on the math, just a note here for readers ... are the actual column titles in the EIA spreadsheets. You need to be pretty careful which data you pick from the large ... 7 = -296.85 MBbl/d = the gasoline daily stock change. Now all we need to do is to bring together daily values for net ...
Sandy Fielden - Published June 27, 2012
... look now ( Talkin bout my generation Part I ). We examined all the drivers behind coal to gas switching and determined ... breath and grab an energy drink. To calculate fuel cost we need to look at generation plant economics in terms of ... (we are going to use NYMEX Henry Hub) quoted in MMbtu to get a $/kwh fuel cost. The standard electric power conversion ...
Sandy Fielden - Published July 5, 2012
... price reporters like Argus and Platts. But where do they get their prices? The spot market, of course. Oil trade data ... for the seemingly superfluous exchange of barrels is all about quality and location — which crude oil qualities ... your scuba gear — we’ll be going deep. But first, we need to start with the basics. And that means geography. ...
Rusty Braziel - Published April 6, 2023
... make up 75% of the $28 billion in total debt exposure of all of these firms. This chaos in the oil, gas, and NGL markets is having all kinds of financial and strategic ramifications. One of ... of “exciting,” -- companies running and gunning to get out in front of competitors, developing a resource that ...
Rick Smead - Published May 2, 2016
... spirit and a desire to make it to the top. But as we all know from our past bets on the Big Dance, there’s no ... down the nets. In today’s RBN blog, we discuss the need for new gas pipeline egress from the Permian and assess ... however, there would need to be a path for the gas to get either north or south from there. But building around ...
Housley Carr - Published March 14, 2024
... seeking additional capacity via existing pipelines first need to define the level of gas transportation service and ... limitations and ultimately the cost of the capacity. Not all pipeline capacity is created equal. Capacity on a given ... the constraint. For example, it may not be possible to get gas to Michigan from the Gulf Coast but it might be ...
Bob Bookstaber - Published December 27, 2012
... U.S. liquefaction capacity is under construction. But all is not well. The international LNG market faces flat ... protected from the vagaries of the market—that is, they get the money they need to pay their project loans whether or not the capacity ...
Housley Carr - Published June 6, 2016
... and trying to make sense of the market implications of all that — and trying to wrap your head around Europe’s ... in global LNG trade. The Lay of the Land First, let’s get a quick lay of the land across the pond to understand ... If it comes down to it, European buyers will pay what they need to secure the supply. In fact, we already saw that ...
Sheetal Nasta - Published March 9, 2022
... a number of blogs. Most recently, in our five-part Gotta Get Over series, we discussed plans for a slew of new pipeline projects in Louisiana, all of them tied in one way or another to LNG-related demand. ... wells also generate large volumes of associated gas that need a home — like new LNG export facilities with a ...
Alyssa Schabel - Published July 16, 2024
... Though Americans are sometimes accused of thinking that all that matters ends at our shores, the U.S. oil market is ... perspective is a more manageable beast to tame and get to know. Besides, the U.S. really does play an outsized ... or contraction, and other things worth knowing. We need to emphasize something up front: inventory levels are ...
Housley Carr - Published March 12, 2017
... miles from the coastal LNG terminals, meaning that we’ll need to see lots of incremental pipeline capacity developed ... As we explore in today’s RBN blog, understanding all of these changes requires a natural gas flow/capacity ... in North America, and for that matter, the world. So to get a handle on these developments and their effects, we need ...
Housley Carr - Published February 15, 2024