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... will discuss the takeaway capacity issue and what it means for producers and pipeline operators, including those ... New Mexico know all too well, crude production growth can only happen if there is sufficient pipeline capacity in ... extract, but also the massive volumes of associated gas that emerge with it. As we discussed recently in Come Dancing ...
Sheela Tobben - Published April 15, 2024
... continues to rise, despite pipeline takeaway constraints that have widened crude spreads and depressed natural gas prices at the Waha Hub. But while oil can be — and is being — transported by trucks and ... examining Permian production trends and their implications for pipeline flows and pricing in Texas. We’ve been beating ...
Sheetal Nasta - Published May 6, 2018
... a solution considering efficiency losses and the fact that only about 50% of the CO 2 from steam methane reforming ... 3 ), and sorted out the many “colors” that hydrogen can come in. These include old-fashioned — and very common ... or blue hydrogen space are big, multibillion-dollar plans for U.S. projects backed up with FIDs. Then came the Air ...
Housley Carr - Published October 21, 2021
... Permian and Eagle Ford has given refiners new options for sourcing their crude, causing changes in oil pipeline ... mostly U.S. Gulf Coast-sourced light crude to light crude that will flow in on the new Diamond Pipeline from the ... like Saharan Blend are relatively expensive and margins can be squeezed during bottom-of-cycle periods. (In fact, ...
Amy Kalt - Published October 26, 2017
... Enbridge has been building out two “supersystems” for transporting crude oil to refineries and the company’s ... U.S. produces far more light crude oil than its refineries can economically process — the same is true for Canada regarding heavy crude. Second, crude supply that is surplus to domestic demand needs to be exported — ...
Housley Carr - Published March 21, 2023
... in 2017 and full implementation in 2020, Tier 3 requires that gasoline contain no more than 10 parts per million (ppm) ... on a per-gallon basis. There were special compliance rules for small refiners that applied during the three-year ... of on-spec gasoline and the value addition a refinery can achieve. In the question-and-answer segment of Valero’s ...
George Hoekstra - Published December 8, 2022
Housley Carr For many, coal has become a hydrocarbon non grata in recent ... or more specifically about whether these commodities can ever be produced efficiently and cheaply enough — and ... are incorporating into their power projects equipment that would at least allow for the possibility of firing the ...
Housley Carr - Published March 15, 2022
... a race underway among four offshore export projects that aim to tap into those rising supplies and — with their ... received its permit. That’s how fraught permitting can get, not to mention the costs it can incur. During its ... was issued, Enterprise revealed that its permitting costs for SPOT had already run past $50 million. Figure 1. Blue ...
Sheela Tobben - Published January 21, 2024
Housley Carr For a few years now, the Shale Revolution has been opening up ... by an interconnected sequence of developments that have together propelled the U.S. crude oil, natural gas ... and, with the U.S. now producing far more NGLs than it can consume, new marine terminal capacity is being added to ...
Housley Carr - Published January 16, 2020
Lindsay Schneider The need for more LNG export capacity, driven both by Europe’s push ... located on the topside of a large tanker — which can bring new capacity online faster, much like the floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) that are now boosting European import capacity. In today’s ...
Lindsay Schneider - Published November 21, 2022
... there are the forward basis markets — futures contracts for regional physical gas hubs. These primary pricing ... owners to use transportation capacity to ship gas. That era of decontrol and restructuring of the pipeline ... are fewer and fewer fixed-price deals being done that can be incorporated into the PRA index calculations. That’s ...
Sheetal Nasta - Published March 16, 2022
... paraffinic oil has a lot of neat qualities. But waxy crude can be a hard sell, mostly because, like bacon fat, it needs ... today’s RBN blog, we continue our look at the prospects for a most unusual type of crude oil. By now, many longtime ... for blending. We’ve also been driving home the fact that there’s plenty of waxy crude still in the ground, and ...
Housley Carr - Published October 12, 2021
... a few exceptions, it’s hard to make an economic case for greenfield projects. That reality has spurred a lot of interest among midstream ... Take LNG export facilities. A number of factors can cause frequent and often-sizable swings in LNG feedgas ...
Housley Carr - Published February 1, 2024
... in moving through the regulatory morass and announced that it had received its deepwater port license on April 9. ... connectivity. Part 1 of this series made the case for constructing at least one of the four deepwater export ... The other major obstacle is the regulatory process, which can stretch for years. That’s where SPOT (striped green ...
Taylor Noland - Published April 9, 2024
... global interest in clean ammonia — plus the potential for earning generous federal tax credits — spurred a host ... contracts and final investment decisions (FIDs). We noted that there are two primary drivers behind the shift from talk ... of planned CCS facilities and export terminals that either can handle ammonia or could be fitted to do so. As you’ll ...
Housley Carr - Published May 14, 2024
... in the form of U.S. district and appellate court rulings that vacated the project’s Nationwide Permit 12 for construction in and around hundreds of streams and ... Permit 12 is a streamlined, blanket approval the Corps can issue for a utility-line project that, by its very ...
Housley Carr - Published July 5, 2020
... will be enough pipeline takeaway capacity to handle all that growth. This is serious stuff—the Permian’s success ... degree on whether producers and the midstream sector can avoid the major constraint-driven price differentials ... Permian twice this decade. Today we discuss the prospects for another round of takeaway/price-differential trouble in ...
Housley Carr - Published May 4, 2017
... (yellow diamond in Figure 1) — and we should look at that facility in depth before we discuss the potential for a second LNG export terminal close to the ... winter months, when gas demand for Northeast space-heating can spike. But this has not been a significant issue for the ...
Lindsay Schneider - Published October 23, 2022
... — and they have been from time to time — these cities can experience shortages and price spikes, and be forced to ... we discuss a supply alternative now under development that will pipe motor fuels south from BP’s Whiting refinery ... U.S. in early March put the kibosh on a lot of our plans for driving — and flying! –– in 2020 and, depending on ...
Housley Carr - Published December 27, 2020
... rates three times last year, brightening the prospects for continued economic growth and increases in energy demand, ... the so-called prime lending rate, the percentage that commercial banks charge their most creditworthy customers. Loans to the energy sector can be tied to both the FFR and the prime rate. And since ...
Taylor Noland - Published January 22, 2025