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... shippers want more than new takeaway capacity. They also need to know that the pipeline systems they sign up with can reliably move their gas to markets where they can get the best price. Put simply, they are demanding ... new pipelines and industrial projects to make good use of all that’s produced. By far the most dynamic market for ...
Housley Carr - Published January 16, 2025
... expect, only in one basin: the Permian. So what is driving all the infrastructure development this time around? In ... Bottom line: These relationships determine which assets get built, what trades get done, and ultimately who makes ... models) and the hands-on, practical instruction you’ll need to use them effectively. These models are similar to ...
Rusty Braziel - Published May 20, 2024
... premium over WTI (red line). To understand the chart we need to make two big points clear so lets go ahead and make ... below from the North Dakota Pipeline Authority tells us all we need to know on the topic. By the end of this year, ... That logjam is restricting the volume of crude that can get beyond Cushing by pipeline to Gulf Coast markets. Because ...
Sandy Fielden - Published August 15, 2012
... valve for prices — there for producers when they need it, in the background when they don’t. In 2018, we saw ... from our neighbors to the north, with volumes reaching an all-time high of 330 Mb/d just this past November. But just ... and discounts for Canadian crude at $43/bbl, you could get a barrel of WCS for darn near the same price as a ...
John Zanner - Published February 13, 2019
... using RBN’s basic frac spread Excel model. After touting all the exceptional insights that can be gleaned from looking ... butane, 9% isobutane and 12% natural gasoline. We’ll get back to that ethane number in a minute. But first we need to consider the butane percentages. At the wellhead, ...
Rusty Braziel - Published February 20, 2020
... impact the energy and power-generation sectors. We’ve all seen how power grids can be overwhelmed during periods of ... there’s a lot of anxiety among their owners anytime they need to drive someplace two or three hours away — ... market because of their smaller batteries. Level 2 will get you 20-60 miles per hour of charge and is the most common ...
... basins — especially the Permian — there was an urgent need for midstream infrastructure. And midstream MLPs, with ... deals. That left an opening for smaller companies to get in there and exploit lucrative midstream niches. And into ... fund is retired. The contracts the LPs sign are almost all identical as “blind pools” with a 10-year maximum ...
David Braziel - Published January 31, 2022
... in Wave 3. Again, producer-shippers are looking to get pipe capacity to different destination markets, although ... investment; they serve as the primary indication of need for the pipeline at the Federal Energy Regulatory ... at least for the interstates, which make up almost all of the pipes in Waves 1 and 2. So it’s fair to say that ...
Rick Smead - Published September 2, 2020
... which includes the Carolinas, Virginia and Maryland, hit all-time highs on January 5. Exports from Dominion’s Cove ... terms) according to the market’s sometimes volatile need for electricity. As we covered in Talkin' 'Bout My ... coal units (See Old King Coal is Down a Hole ). Things can get more complicated in the winter, though — for a number ...
David Braziel - Published February 20, 2018
... toward supply/demand balance. When supply and demand get way out of whack and prices crash, there’s an ... were developed in Australia too (and elsewhere), and all of that capacity––about 140 million tonnes per annum ... Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific, meanwhile, will need to import increasing volumes of gas, much of it ...
Housley Carr - Published October 23, 2016
... of the Permian may ultimately be the biggest challenge of all. Why? Because just about everything involving NGLs seems ... mixed NGL streams come out of gas processing plants, they need to be sent to fractionators to be separated into purity ... the takeaway capacity out of the play — end up. (We’ll get to pipeline-by-pipeline descriptions and flow analyses ...
Housley Carr - Published July 24, 2017
... does not balance perfectly. Consequently EIA (like all other balancers of market statistics) employs the trusty ... by Stock Withdrawals and Stock Additions). To get a better understanding of how these numbers fit together, ... SPR drawdown to help pay for planned improvements (see Need You Now ). Only 34 Mb/d was withdrawn from commercial ...
Housley Carr - Published March 15, 2017
Housley Carr The world will need extraordinarily large quantities of lithium to support ... of which can be used to make cathodes for EV batteries. We get it — many of us would object to a major industrial ... place within the U.S. (again, see Part 1 for details). All of which brings us to a discussion about the only ...
Housley Carr - Published October 25, 2022
... and how they impact your ingredients. Gasoline is, after all, one of the most complex hydrocarbon products out there, ... points, aromatics, olefins, etc. — that when combined need to meet the exacting standards of regulators and, at the ... areas will allow. There’s a lot to unpack here before we get to our main topic: namely, how gasoline market players ...
Housley Carr - Published March 31, 2024
... year-end 2017, Lower-48 natural gas production was at an all-time high — 77 Bcf/d and rising. NGL production from ... see what 2018 holds. 2017 Track Record Each year before we get to our new Prognostications, we find it instructive (and ... The remaining two-thirds of the surplus reduced the need for seasonal inflows and forced huge seasonal outflows ...
Rusty Braziel - Published January 1, 2018
... liquidation mode and causing cascading losses. It can get frantic and ugly — tens or even hundreds of millions of ... (right graph) that increased — the forward curve for all of 2025 shifted markedly higher too, as did the curve for ... anticipates gas flows on each pipeline corridor (and the need for incremental pipeline capacity); and (4) forecasts ...
Housley Carr - Published April 15, 2025
... an oil and/or gas well is captured and burned (we will get to why its burned next). There are a couple of broad ... infrastructure companies. How much flaring goes on? Almost all existing oil and gas wells will have required some ... of production without penalty. After that, producers need to get an exemption for flaring that requires them to ...
Sandy Fielden - Published September 6, 2012
... impacting both spot and future prices. But before you can get into the deeper analysis, you’ve got to understand the ... much terminology in the gas business to try to cover it all in a single RBN blog so we are going to sidestep topics ... measures, so see the schematic in Figure 1 below if you need to get your bearings on how the definitional chain ...
John Abeln - Published June 5, 2024
... that posting we surveyed each of the NGL markets and how all NGL prices had hit the skids, with the light ends (ethane ... in propane production and why surplus volumes will need to move to overseas markets to balance supply and demand ... time we look at our NGL volume forecasts, the numbers get bigger. Projections of wet gas production are higher, ...
Rusty Braziel - Published August 27, 2013
... factors that make prices rise and fall. It is not at all unusual for ethane prices to increase while normal butane ... through fractionation into purity products. Once you get your head around that long and winding road the next step ... of other terminology and trading convention issues we need to cover before getting into the nitty gritty. NGLs ...
Callie Mitchell - Published July 26, 2012