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... catalyst for this upheaval? For part of that answer, we need to look to the north. Bakken crudes have a symbiotic ... is an influx of cheap Canadian flooding into U.S. markets, all pricing at Clearbrook tends to be under pressure, ... 12 months. DAPL is the latest and greatest pipeline to get built out of the basin, but it might also have been the ...
John Zanner - Published October 23, 2018
... drought” (as is much of California), and almost all the rest of the Pacific Northwest is in a drought ... million MWh, and gas-unit output fell to 11.6 million MWh, all according to the US Energy Information Administration ... Spotcheck Indicators, Market Fundamentals Webcasts, and Get-Togethers. More information on Backstage Pass here . ...
Housley Carr - Published February 27, 2014
... gas for power generation is scarce. But, as we’ll get to in a moment, there are signs that this winter oil and ... domestic gas prices), and then they weren’t used at all—until December 2014. Then, Excelerate used the LNG ... a more cost-effective way to meet the generation sectors need for extra pulses of fuel on those five to 40 very cold ...
Housley Carr - Published February 19, 2015
... ago in an era when available crude quality was expected to get heavier (i.e. with a lower API degrees gravity) and more ... – can only absorb so much domestic light crude and need to continue importing heavy and medium grade crudes in ... Reckoning Day ). For Houston region refineries that means all remaining waterborne crude imports are medium and heavy ...
Sandy Fielden - Published August 12, 2015
... of a high-wire act. But just as big-tent tightrope walkers get better with practice, energy prognosticators can gain ... production and incremental pipeline capacity slashed the need for CBR. And who would have guessed a few years ago that ... here to way-up-there in a matter of weeks or months. What all of us (producers included) have also learned, though, is ...
Housley Carr - Published November 21, 2016
... North American energy markets. If you are at all involved in the energy industry you know that these ... drilling involves drilling down vertically until you get to the desired depth in the producing shale formation and ... in China. Now that you are educated in everything you need to know about horizontal drilling and hydraulic ...
Sandy Fielden - Published September 13, 2012
... the difference between Henry Hub and Waha — things could get ugly, but we’ll get to that in a minute. After growing ... Sources: RBN, Enverus As you probably already know, all that growth has to get out of the basin. You may also be ... of new capacity to the Permian gas market, you don’t need a degree in mathematics to see that 2023’s forecast ...
... are supposed to be building toward the levels needed to get U.S. propane markets through the winter season. But the ... fact, waterborne exports of propane and butanes hit new, all-time peaks in four months in 2020 (March, April, October, ... record — more than 1.9 MMb/d — in April of this year, all according to RBN’s NGL Voyager report. It’s been a ...
Housley Carr - Published August 11, 2021
... for simplicity’s sake). About one-fifth of that daily need is produced at refineries within PADD 1 (mostly near ... delivered. The Central Atlantic and Southeast sub-regions get most of their GDHJ via the Colonial and Plantation ... beige-background boxes) to intermediate delivery points (all existing terminals). There’s an unusual twist in ...
Housley Carr - Published April 5, 2016
... Coast. And another nearly 3.0 Bcf/d is in the works. The need for gas supply reliability in the heavily populated ... geography, geology and regulatory environment of the area, all also make it tough and expensive for upgrading, expanding ... York that have thus far eluded two other projects (we’ll get to those in a bit). Atlantic Bridge, which is shored up ...
Sheetal Nasta - Published May 14, 2017
... both crude oil and natural gas production have breached all-time records. So it should come as no surprise the same ... discussed the pace of NGL production growth and the need for more infrastructure to handle the incremental ... another 240 Mb/d of NGLs out of the Bakken. And in Can't Get There from Here , we looked at ethane in particular, ...
Housley Carr With all the talk about U.S. LNG exports and plans for more LNG ... we saw as the growing gap between Mexico’s fast-growing need for natural gas and the country’s declining gas ... Information Administration, or EIA). And, as we’ll get to, Mexican demand for U.S. gas is likely to continue ...
Housley Carr - Published January 18, 2024
... worried about processing margins, right? And that’s not all we have to worry about. U.S. NGL production in March and ... the value-add at natural gas processing plants? To get that answer, all we need do is break out the spreadsheet used in the Golden Age ...
Rusty Braziel - Published July 22, 2012
... is most efficiently accomplished by pipeline. But to get heavy crude moving in a pipeline it has to be diluted ... have the yield characteristics that heavy crude refiners need. We have also looked at the economics of bitumen ... if and when both options are available to producers? After all, it is one thing to use rail transport in the absence of ...
Sandy Fielden - Published July 30, 2013
... over the next four years. The result would be a rising need for Western Canadian bitumen producers to import diluent ... Box of Chocolates – The Condensate Dilemma , supplies of all of these condensate range materials in the US are ... Spotcheck Indicators, Market Fundamentals Webcasts, and Get-Togethers. Our newest RBN Drill Down report titled Rock ...
Sandy Fielden - Published April 7, 2014
... and the expanded inventory that they expect they will need in the years ahead. Key takeaways from the report ... see an opportunity to monetize their investments. With all the recent M&A, there are now far fewer potential targets ... Spotcheck Indicators, Market Fundamentals Webcasts, Get-Togethers and more. By subscribing to RBN’s Backstage ...
Paige Hambric - Published October 4, 2023
... pipeline flows across the Texas-Louisiana border to get gas all the way down to South Texas and the Texas-Mexico border. ... by a long-term firm gas transportation agreement for all 2.1 Bcf/d with MGI Supply Ltd., an indirect wholly owned ...
Sheetal Nasta - Published February 9, 2017
... quickly the catalyst-driven activity declines in service. All catalysts eventually deactivate to the point where they ... most of the metals from the catalyst, but refiners only get a fraction of the value of the metals reclaimed, ... which require mining, refining and purification — all highly energy-intensive processes. On paper, among the ...
George Hoekstra - Published July 24, 2024
... to Houston by a batch system (see You Can’t Always Get Out What You Put In for more on batch operations). Most ... TX to Gardendale, TX in the Eagle Ford Basin. Before all this new construction, three “legacy” pipelines – ... initial production rates are high. The result is a growing need for infrastructure like the BridgeTex pipeline to get ...
Sandy Fielden - Published October 12, 2014
... crude oil benchmark in the world, with well over 70% of all global crudes tied either directly or indirectly to the ... Brent crude oil production is almost played out, with all of the offshore Brent producing platforms soon to be ... The problem is that participants in the Brent market get concerned if there are only a handful of cargoes used to ...
David Braziel - Published June 15, 2020