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... Identification Number, or RIN, market is so misunderstood that even its main participants don’t agree on its ... mix of “unfinished gasoline” (oil-based blendstock for oxygenated blending, or BOB) and ethanol. Beginning on ... yellow oval) — meaning that from that point on the RIN can be bought or sold until it is retired to fulfill an ...
Jason Lindquist - Published November 30, 2022
Jason Lindquist It’s well understood that methane is a significant greenhouse gas and that ... we look at how emissions estimates are made, why they can vary significantly, and how the disagreements about how ... those emissions. It uses estimated emissions factors for certain activities, assuming normal performance, such as ...
Jason Lindquist - Published June 23, 2022
... Seat , RD, like biodiesel, is a biomass-based fuel that can be burned in diesel engines or used as heating oil for homes. In distinguishing between those two ...
Jason Lindquist - Published December 12, 2023
... England is playing gas against hydro, and how the outlook for gas consumption by generators may be less bullish than ... is high. In Episode One of this series, we explained that ISO-New England is implementing several stop-gap ... and a gradual uptick in wind and solar. Gas, as you can see, is the big winner if this plays out. Figure #1 ...
Housley Carr - Published August 5, 2014
... be hard to believe, given the furnace-like temperatures that many of us have been dealing with the past few weeks, ... Adventure movie franchise, it could be argued that, for the U.S. propane market, “The best place to be is here. ... limits to how much propane Gulf Coast marine terminals can handle. Figure 5. PADD 3 Monthly Propane Inventory. ...
Housley Carr - Published August 14, 2023
... earnings presentation last week, Energy Transfer said that they and their joint venture (JV) partners, Satellite ... in November, only three months from now. This new outlet for U.S.-sourced ethane comes at a time when production of ... When oil and gas are produced, the natural gas can come along with natural gas liquids (NGLs; see Carbon ...
David Braziel - Published August 10, 2020
... speculation. This year has been a pretty unexciting one for the natural gas market so far. CME NYMEX Henry Hub ... monthly supply/demand data from our friends at Bentek we can see that the dominant theme in the market remains growing ...
Sandy Fielden - Published November 21, 2013
... along the Gulf Coast have been competing fiercely for the business of crude shippers. The primary weapons in ... loading crude onto tankers, the bigger the better. On that last point, for many shippers the vessel of choice is a ... though, and so far only the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port can fully load one. Within a year, though, thanks to a ...
Housley Carr - Published May 3, 2021
... market in history. In today’s RBN blog, we examine that event and address three key questions: How did it ... be short RINs, were suddenly paying $14 billion per year for them. Figure 2. D6 Ethanol Fuel Blending Pathway. Source: ... steadily through 2010-12, reached the 10% maximum that can be blended into E10 gasoline (this maximum became known ...
George Hoekstra - Published October 20, 2022
Don't Pass Me By, Part 2 - TransWest Express Shows Challenges in Building Long-Distance Transmission
... of wind power, to help meet increasing customer demand for electricity in the Desert Southwest. And enabling ... of those delays, and some permitting-reform proposals that might shorten project timelines. As we outlined in Part ... is that the permitting process for some important projects can drag on for years and prevent others from ever becoming a ...
Jason Lindquist - Published May 16, 2023
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Shell's Pennsylvania Petchem Complex Finally Firing On All Cylinders
... delays and a rougher-than-expected production ramp-up. But that’s all in the past now (fingers crossed) and the ... a region that is home to the majority of domestic demand for polyethylene (PE), which is made from the polymerization ... began in 2017 on the 1.6 million MT/year cracker that can receive up to about 95 Mb/d of ethane and three PE plants ...
... the economics of fuel switching. Back then — and for most of the Shale Era years — the conversations around ... Gas supply abundance and a lower-price environment meant that gas was increasingly competitive with coal. The ... whether and to what extent increased coal-fired generation can help balance the gas market this injection season. Coal ...
Sheetal Nasta - Published May 5, 2022
Housley Carr For some time now, clean ammonia proponents have been talking ... clean hydrogen remained few and far between. Until lately, that is, with the recent uptick in project announcements ... on what clean ammonia is, how it’s produced and what it can be used for. Then we’ll look at the primary drivers ...
Housley Carr - Published April 19, 2023
... “green,” “blue,” or “pink” hydrogen (H 2 ) can ever be produced efficiently and cheaply enough — and ... gas, let alone using H 2 as an outright replacement for gas. At the same time, though, a growing number of ... groups — are planning new, large-scale power plants that will be capable of hydrogen/natgas co-firing from the ...
Housley Carr - Published March 2, 2022
... lots of headlines in the early days of renewable fuels, that vision faded into the background and attention shifted ... series and Land of Confusion Drill Down Report for more about how the system works.) Renewable Fuel ... economic incentive provided by a higher D3 RIN price can help accelerate the move to natural gas-powered vehicles. ...
George Hoekstra - Published December 25, 2024
... Last year’s $1 trillion-plus infrastructure law calls for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to invest up to $8 ... of four or more U.S. hydrogen hubs. It’s a safe bet that the DOE will determine that at least one location along ... Beyond that, the impact of hydrocarbons on the climate can be reduced by blending with renewable fuels or other ...
Housley Carr - Published September 8, 2022
... you’ve factored in tax credits and other incentives, and can it be incorporated into North America’s existing energy ... diesel, which also benefits from governmental programs and that it can be blended into petroleum-based diesel. Another ... anaerobic digesters, which are also the main destination for livestock manure used to produce RNG. Given their smaller ...
Adam Karpf - Published June 17, 2021
Martin King In an industry such as oil and gas that is beset with more uncertainty than usual of late due to ... the sailing is smoother — is more important than ever. For Western Canada’s energy sector, this has meant ... condensate production from the formation that each company can use as diluent for its bitumen output. October 2024: As ...
Martin King - Published April 17, 2025
Kristen Holmquist It’s the most expensive NGL, accounting for more than 25% of the value of a weighted average barrel. It is the only NGL that does not require storage or transportation under ... nomenclature brings us to our next topic: the terminology can be puzzling. There are several products with totally ...
Kristen Holmquist - Published April 10, 2025
George Hoekstra For several years now, no single topic has caused more angst ... topic of renewable identification numbers, or RINs, which can have a big impact on a refiner’s financial performance. ... fuels. In the first blog in this series , we explained that RINs are used to monitor compliance with the federal ...
George Hoekstra - Published June 16, 2022