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... concludes September 30, followed by its eventual closure. That means about 1 MMbbl — 42 MM gallons — of gasoline ... Sandy made landfall in the Northeast (see Save it for Later ). The powerful storm badly damaged two refineries ... in Washington when anything related to energy policy can feel like a partisan issue? And why was the gasoline ...
Sheela Tobben - Published June 10, 2024
... in the U.S. has been making impressive gains lately and that trend looks likely to continue. Power demand is growing ... spurred the development of new gas pipeline capacity that can bring in supply from as far away as the Marcellus Shale ... looked at how declines in nuclear power equated to gains for the gas-fired generation sector. And, a while back in ...
Katharine Fraser - Published November 8, 2018
Rusty Braziel Growth for growth’s sake. In the early years of the Shale Revolution, that’s what it was all about. Backed by billions of dollars ... operations and thereby increase the pool of money that can be used not only for drilling new wells, but also for ...
Rusty Braziel - Published April 8, 2024
... Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was passed in August 2022. (For more on MERP, see Cover Me .) The funding will provide ... wells — also called stripper wells or marginal wells — can play an outsized role in methane emissions. These wells, ... and natural gas production. In contrast, the 59,077 wells that produced more than 100 boe/d (gray and green layers in ...
Jason Lindquist - Published December 15, 2023
... Mid-Atlantic region has declined by more than half, mostly for economic reasons — including the lack of pipeline ... at many of the large pipelines and pipeline systems that transport gasoline, diesel and jet fuel long distances ... in the y-axis are different for the two graphs. As you can see, the East Coast’s total refining capacity has ...
Housley Carr - Published September 5, 2022
... profits a major topic of conversation — and not just for politicians. While some of the explanations of refining ... and accepted, and still others consider factors that are less frequently cited, even by those familiar with ... Highly Dependent on Natural Gas High natural gas prices can be particularly devastating to refiners because they ...
Kevin Waguespack - Published July 19, 2022
RBN Team During the month of June, the ethane margin for a typical U.S. Gulf Coast petrochemical cracker soared ... and natural gasoline consistently since 2017. During that period the average ethane margin was 14 c/lb, while ... basis was 2021. The recent runup in ethane’s margin can be attributed to two factors. First, the price of ethane ...
RBN Team - Published July 1, 2024
Kelly Van Hull The margin for producing ethylene by steam-cracking ethane has been less ... in our Ethane Asylum Revisited series. There, we explained that the now more than 40 stream crackers in the U.S. ... (mostly ethane or ethane and propane), while the others can switch between feedstocks to maximize their profitability ...
... Belvieu prices. As shown in the chart below, we estimate that total U.S. propane stocks dropped by 20.1 MMbbl in ... bar) and the 11.3 MMbbl 5-year average (green bar) draw for the month. But it hasn’t been just January, as the ... up 24% over Q4 2022. But it remains to be seen if exports can remain at the robust levels seen over the last few months ...
Todd Root - Published February 13, 2024
... - zero carbon generation sources may be the ideal method for CO2 reductions, but the fastest way to reduce CO2 ... played out across several states, most recently in You Can’t Hurry Love and our newest Drill Down Report , and ... a world where the energy mix had stayed constant. And that's were the story gets interesting. In that same ...
... which has been working through a backlog of petitions for small refinery exemptions (SREs) for the 2016-24 ... the SRE program “back on track” and a recognition that some small refineries are impacted more significantly ... eligible to meet obligations in 2024 or future years but can be used to demonstrate compliance under the normal ...
Jason Lindquist - Published August 22, 2025
... Root U.S. ethane prices are moving on up again. And we can't blame the increase on natural gas this time. As ... are the culprit either. The left-hand chart below shows that April ethane stocks were 5.4 MMbbl, or 10.5%, higher ... is behind the jump in prices with feedstock margins for ethane at only ~5 c/lb currently (right-hand chart ...
Todd Root - Published July 11, 2023
... — is key to this effort. But while the economic case for producing RD in the U.S. has been compelling for some ... chemical twins of those widely used fuels and therefore can serve as “drop-in” replacements for them. Further, ... oils and recycled fats contain long-chain hydrocarbons that are energy-dense and release significant amounts of ...
Kevin Waguespack - Published June 12, 2023
... investor sentiment, have adopted a new fiscal discipline that de-emphasizes production growth and prioritizes ... volume commitments from producers. However, infrastructure can’t be relocated like rigs, and those contracts with ... the new exposure” WES would bring. The outlook for WES briefly looked brighter from having a larger parent ...
Tom Biracree - Published July 3, 2022
... imports into the region have been instrumental to ensure that the many homes and businesses in the Northeast that depend on the fuel for space heating stay warm. One company that has really ... with inventories only at the five-year average. You can see the significant impact of the import shipments on the ...
Todd Root - Published March 27, 2023
... as PDH-1, had initial design and construction problems that led to repeated unplanned shutdowns that resulted in ... the heater and design issues and will shut down the unit for about a month in the second half of 2024 to fix the ... also has a PDH in Alberta that started up in 2022 that can receive up to 22 Mb/d of propane and feed propylene to a ...
... And while it might seem far removed from the factors that influence the global crude market, what happens ... plays in crude oil storage, show how the forward curve can influence inventories, and look at what might be behind ... terminals. The Oklahoma hub is also the delivery point for the CME/NYMEX futures contract for West Texas ...
Jason Lindquist - Published November 18, 2024
... of fixes, including more stringent reliability rules for natural gas suppliers, from producers to transmission ... transition to low- or no-carbon energy sources. How can all of these issues be understood and addressed at once — and in a way that doesn’t bore us all to tears? In today’s RBN blog, ...
Rick Smead - Published October 12, 2022
Housley Carr It’s possible for a single new infrastructure project to be a game-changer ... which means they need to serve a specific purpose. That’s not to say they can’t shift the landscape of the areas they serve. For ...
Housley Carr - Published January 18, 2022
... has expanded the number of refineries Canadian heavy oil can reach, and the expansion of crude oil export terminals ... the Gulf Coast has resulted in greatly improved exposure for Canadian barrels to buyers in international markets. The ... from the oil sands. The key thing with the WCS price is that because of the Canadian heavy oil’s characteristics ...
Martin King - Published May 3, 2023