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... ratio that before 2008 averaged 7.5X but jumped to an all time high of 54X in 2012 during the “Great Divide” ... ratio. NATGAS Billboard: Natural Gas Outlook What you need to know about natural gas prices - EACH DAY! ... are less important than the need to keep producing to get cash flow (see Zombies ). That means the reality in the ...
Sandy Fielden - Published February 4, 2016
... Enbridge’s Line 3 Replacement (L3R) to the U.S. Midwest all faced major hurdles. KXL was eventually canceled and TMX ... start-up of L3R. In other words, the barrels that want to get out of Western Canada are finding their way out with ... sufficient pipeline export capacity in place is to add up all of the demand outlets for Western Canadian crude oil and ...
Martin King - Published November 9, 2021
... said in our most recent look south of the border (see No Need for Mexicali Blues ), the expansion of gas-fired power ... lack needed road and water infrastructure, and—worst of all—they pose real security risks to drillers due to the ... Knight & The Pips, Jerry Lee Lewis and—most popular of all—country singer Sammi Smith. natural gas Mexico Texas ...
Housley Carr - Published January 29, 2015
... diverse sources as far away as the Marcellus/Utica. After all, the nation’s pipeline network was initially designed ... LNG for loading and shipment overseas. Then there’s the need to line up LNG traders and consumers interested in ... its SPA counter-parties will need at Sabine Pass. (We’ll get to the gas supply itself a little later.) Let’s take ...
Housley Carr - Published July 20, 2015
... Bakken output) averaged 1.876 Bcf/d, just a hair below the all-time-record of 1.879 Bcf/d set the previous month. Of ... or so. But in gas processing, as in real estate, it’s all about location, location, location — that is, some of ... Chicago, and there are two main ways for Bakken gas to get there: the 2.4-Bcf/d Northern Border Pipeline (dark green ...
Housley Carr - Published November 29, 2017
... Channel also has something to do with it. So, what does all of this have to do with the San Juan way out in ... New Mexico, over 1,000 miles from Henry Hub? We will get to that in a minute, but first we need to hit the high points of how the San Juan Basin gas ...
David Braziel The Shale Revolution created an unprecedented need for midstream infrastructure of every sort — gathering ... pipelines, fractionators, export terminals, and more — all with the aim of connecting new hydrocarbon supply to ... few were privately held, but — for good reasons we’ll get to next — an increasing number were master limited ...
David Braziel - Published January 24, 2022
... The three different blends of bitumen described above all have different transport options and costs. What follows ... they ship 1.39 Bbl of dilbit to move one Bbl of bitumen. All the freight costs therefore are based on 1.39 Bbl. At the ... that can handle railbit or better yet can remove all the diluent to ship raw bitumen. [1] We estimated the ...
Sandy Fielden - Published September 15, 2013
... capacity, producers had to accept discounted prices to get their barrels onto busy pipelines – causing prices at ... area. More information about Stairway to Houston here . All this price volatility between Midland and Cushing (as ... either case – as we discussed back in May 2015 – the need for an additional 470 Mb/d of new capacity on the ...
Sandy Fielden - Published November 15, 2015
... timeline for one of the projects and put the other on ice. All this comes as Western Canada’s propane market is in ... steps behind this process are explained in Things Can Only Get Better . It has been nearly a year since we last ... The delay and cost run-up are tied in part to the need to implement COVID-19 health measures to protect the ...
Martin King - Published September 30, 2020
... the fundamentals of the crude oil market. To do this you need to understand what’s happening with production, ... exports, refinery demand, storage, pricing, and how they all interact with each other. This section covers the ... (CO 2 ). Once captured, the most straightforward way to get rid of CO 2 is carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), ...
Johnny Martin - Published July 3, 2024
... – for example in a condensate splitter – in order to get past the export regulations. As best we can tell, the ... gas window (peach) the oil window (green) with the now all-important wet gas / condensate window in the middle ... capacity. The largest of these stabilizers is the Plains All American (PAA) facility in La Salle County at Gardendale ...
Sandy Fielden - Published July 13, 2014
John Zanner Crude production is at all-time highs in the Bakken and the Niobrara, and the latest ... pipe capacity now being offered? Today, we consider the need for new takeaway capacity, the potential for an ... barrels at the lease at a higher price than what they can get for them downstream in the sales market. Simply put, ...
John Zanner - Published March 25, 2019
Rusty Braziel With all the hype about hydrogen you hear these days, you’d ... through some of hydrogen’s regulatory framework ( Got To Get You Into My Life ). So far, we have not spent much time ... and hydrodesulfurization units since the 1950s. As the need for higher-performance fuels increased and more ...
Rusty Braziel - Published June 22, 2021
... systems to move among wells at a single pad. Fewer crews need to be fielded to man the rigs and centralized facilities ... of prefabricated equipment and in-house engineering — all of which adds up to longer laterals drilled more ... like EQT, this means that they will intentionally get more wells permitted than they intend to drill in order ...
David Braziel - Published December 25, 2018
... and PADD 4 (Rockies; yellow line), with 31 Mb/d, or 2%, all according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). ... 4) refineries averaged 76 Mb/d and 30 Mb/d, respectively, all lower than their 2019 averages. There have always been ... downturn in demand and production and have been trying to get some of that space back. Also, there are serious pipeline ...
Housley Carr - Published May 11, 2022
... the markets for NGLs. As we said last week in Can’t Get Enough of It , for a few days in late April, a barrel of ... load ethane onto Very Large Ethane Carriers (VLECs). With all of that as background, we next look at Marcellus/Utica ... fall short of what is needed. That might result in the need for more propane to be either piped in from Gulf Coast ...
Housley Carr - Published May 20, 2020
... overdrive this winter — it seems the world just can’t get enough of the super-cooled natural gas. Moreover, with ... liquefaction capacity of 25.2 Bcf/d, or 50% higher than all of Canada’s current natural gas production (see Slip ... Woodfibre LNG project were to fall through, mitigating the need for the proposed capacity expansion of the entire ...
Martin King - Published February 27, 2022
... a small number of these multibillion-dollar projects will get their financial go-aheads, it would seem eminently ... are eager to line up the incremental LNG supply they will need in the early to mid-2020s. Want proof? Royal Dutch ... to 75% equity interest in a holding company that will own all those assets, which will give the customers/partners ...
Housley Carr - Published October 2, 2018
... to the saltwater disposal (SWD) wells that E&Ps use to get rid of the massive volumes of “produced water” their ... active in these areas are responding — and what all this means for current and future oil and gas production ... thousands of barrels per day, in many cases — they would need to ratchet down or even shutter production from existing ...
Housley Carr - Published February 2, 2022