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... Operational Requirements: electric power system operators need to maintain high levels of reliability and reserve ... fuel cost of a coal plant then switching will decline. Of all these drivers, fuel cost is the only one that utilities ... Futures Data from Morningstar (Click to Enlarge) Next to get an idea of how actual power burn (the quantity of natural ...
Sandy Fielden - Published January 9, 2013
... deals with cabotage (coastal shipping) and requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports have to be ... means once a US flagged vessel is built you can’t go and get cheap repairs at some body shop down in the islands. ... if the refinery closed 180 MB/d of refined products would need to be shipped into the Northeast to meet demand. The ...
Sandy Fielden - Published October 8, 2012
... occasionally limited Bakken crude takeaway capacity. If all three pipelines are built though, the Dakota Express ... it is unlikely that the 150 Mb/d High Plains pipeline will get built because of the lack of a connection to Enbridge at ... pipelines more attractive but we suggest that Koch may need to shorten the commitment period to get shipper ...
Sandy Fielden - Published July 16, 2013
... last 45-plus years and will have a capacity of 49 Mb/d. All in, area producers could see an additional 175 Mb/d of ... want some sort of long-term contract before they really get geared up to move barrels. Figure 3. Estimate Bakken ... coming soon. To make a lot more CBR happen, prices would need to widen to a point where producers, terminal owners, ...
John Zanner - Published October 31, 2018
... prices, flying to the moon and then crashing to earth, all before winter even starts? Not to mention crude prices up ... producers being willing to shut in production if prices get low enough. We still believe it was an important market ... Appalachia, and the Haynesville, all of which are going to need new pipeline takeaway capacity soon. The challenge now ...
Rusty Braziel - Published December 30, 2021
... are fading. Today the question is one of demand – how is all the new light domestic production going to be processed? ... 50 degrees reached at least 600 Mb/d in 2011 and will get to at least 1.4 MMb/d by the end of 2015 - in other ... a name calling contest with the EIA, the first thing we need to say about their 50 API plus category is that the rest ...
Sandy Fielden - Published June 12, 2014
... its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across all its operations by 2050. Dominion said at the time that it ... to make at the price you are willing to pay will make all past errors pale in comparison. The purchase will result ... debt to the capital structure. Questar Assets Before we get into more detail about Rockies gas production and flows ...
Jason Lindquist - Published October 14, 2021
... from crude oils. And condensates are not like all NGLs – they are similar only to natural gasoline, the ... of condensates are colored 50 shades of gray (We had to get that in there somewhere.) The lighter condensates (higher ... from Ann on condensate exports, lets just sum up what we need to remember from these definitions as we analyze the ...
Rusty Braziel - Published October 22, 2012
... few years, it is not surprising that it is challenging to get producers to commit to pipeline projects from ... Dakota, and about 85 Mb/d of propane-plus capacity in all of PADD 4), (3) limited local demand, and (4) more ethane ... Good to Be a Gas Processor, Part 3 .) Other questions that need to be answered include these: Until Elk Creek comes into ...
... course the forecast in 2011 turned out not to be hype at all but rather an underestimate. The next chart (below) shows ... by the end of 2016 (see chart below). Gulf coast refiners need this stuff like a hole in the head. They are already ... that short time, infrastructure has been put in place to get increasing Eagle Ford volumes of crude to market. The ...
Sandy Fielden - Published June 2, 2013
... to engines fired partially or entirely by LNG, but they need assurance that their new fuel source will be plentiful and at hand. Today we detail all the new liquefaction capacity being developed ... and running by the end of October 2014. The facility will get natural gas from Noble’s new Keota gas processing ...
Housley Carr - Published September 11, 2014
... oil delivery. Crude-laden VLCCs are “low riders” that need deep water, though, and so far only the Louisiana ... Texas Gateway , which loaded its first tanker last July. All nine of the Corpus/Ingleside terminals capable of ... its vast vertical clearance, will make it easy peasy to get Suezmaxes in — there would even be enough space to get ...
Housley Carr - Published May 3, 2021
... markets and thus bring down prices. If only it were all so simple! In today's RBN blog, we discuss the ... exported and not used by U.S. refineries. But — as we'll get to in a moment — crude oil trades (and is priced) in ... both of which produce less gasoline and diesel then they need? That would be nice, but capacity constraints on ...
John Auers - Published August 8, 2022
... it is still well below the outlook for supply growth. If all goes according to those producer plans, total Northeast ... dive into each individual producer’s outlook. We’ll get more into that methodology below. Figure 1. Southwest ... the rig count in the Northeast Marcellus would only need to reach 20 rigs and in the Southwest Marcellus/Utica 59 ...
Jim Simpson - Published September 5, 2017
... pipes with a new, safer “tunnel” alternative. All of which raises the question, what would be the market ... the customers that depend on Line 5 be affected? Before we get to that, we’ll discuss what Line 5 transports, and to ... refineries mentioned in the bulleted section above would need to try to secure more space on Line 6/Line 78. That ...
Housley Carr - Published September 1, 2020
... the volume of the next-smallest PADD. That limits the need for refinery capacity, which matches the region’s ... remained in the 250-300 Mb/d range. That means virtually all of PADD 4’s incremental crude production exits the ... Water - Turn Negative at Waha Before looking at where all this crude oil is heading, it’s important to know where ...
Morgan Overman - Published March 13, 2025
... pipeline capacity. Back then it made sense to use rail to get stranded crude to market. As a result U.S. CBR shipments ... The railroad network that CBR uses already exists – all the new load terminals needed was to build an on-ramp – e.g., a loading terminal. That limited need for new infrastructure keeps the cost down – providing ...
Sandy Fielden - Published April 24, 2016
... volumes of trapped gas from rock formations. (As we’ll get to in a moment, there are other challenges too.) The ... but also from the U.S. side of the border, where E&Ps need to keep track of potential competitors for serving all those new Mexican power plants. A total of nine bidders ...
Housley Carr - Published July 11, 2017
... We’ve been talking a lot over the past year about the need for increasing exports to balance the U.S propane market ... EIA and IHS Waterborne Energy (Click to Enlarge) We’ll get to the possible effect these exports may have had on ... Energy Transfer, Williams/Boardwalk and Occidental have all proposed export facilities along with further expansions ...
... infrastructure project timelines. Or kill the projects all together. We’ve got a black swan on our hands here, ... and make a top-to-bottom, side-to-side reassessment. We need to look at U.S. and international energy markets from a ... registered, contact us at school@rbnenergy.com either to get a partial refund, or to apply part of your fee to one of ...
Rusty Braziel - Published March 17, 2020