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Energy markets will long remember 2015.  For producers and midstreamers, the memories won’t be pleasant. But it was not all bad news.  Particularly if you happen to be an energy buyer or refiner. As we’ve done for the past four years, today is a day for looking back over the past twelve months in the RBN blogosphere – to see which blogs have generated the most interest from you, our readers.  We track the hit rate for each of our daily blogs, and the number of hits tells you a lot about what is going on in energy markets.  So once again we have taken a page out of the late Casey Kasem’s playbook to look at the top blogs of 2015 based on numbers of website hits.

What do you do when prices are in the cellar, hundreds of rigs are idle, production growth has evaporated and the whole industry seems to be wondering how the numbers are going to work.  Well of course, it’s time to head back to school to understand the new realities of energy markets.  That is what School of Energy Spring 2016 is all about.  This is nothing like other natural gas, crude oil or NGL conferences! The course work is hands-on. In each module we’ll drill down on an important aspect of the market, explain how it works, download spreadsheet models and learn how to use them. This time we’ve added more models than ever, crunching the numbers that explain everything from production economics to petrochemical margins in the context of today’s prices. You walk out the door with the how-to Powerpoints and the Excel models on your hard drive.  Warning - today’s blog is a blatant commercial for our upcoming Houston conference.

It’s that time again!   Vacation is behind us and it’s time to gather the school supplies and get ready for class.  Of course, we are not talking about high school or college.  If you want to know about energy markets, the campus is the Houstonian in Houston and the class is RBN’s School of Energy, scheduled for September 28, 29 and 30.  This is nothing like other natural gas, crude oil or NGL conferences! The course work is hands-on. In each module we’ll drill down on an important aspect of the market, explain how it works, download a spreadsheet model and learn how to use it. You walk out the door with the how-to Powerpoints and the Excel models on your hard drive.  Warning today’s blog is a blatant commercial for our upcoming Houston conference.    But we hope you will read on, because we have a very special addition this time – a full day dedicated to the export markets. 

<p>Did you miss our School of Energy this past March&nbsp;in Calgary?&nbsp;&nbsp; Not a problem!&nbsp; We videoed the whole conference and today we are making School of Energy available online, in streaming video format.&nbsp; The conference video, presentation slides and spreadsheet models are available in segments, or as </p>

RBN Energy is branching out!  Today we are launching our new premium services package called Backstage Pass.  Just like it sounds, this new service gets you deep into the details of the data and models we put together at RBN, providing what we believe is a whole new level of information access, insights and connections across energy markets.  Don’t panic.  The blog is still free.  But if you are like the many RBN members that have asked for a much broader range of services, then you will be happy to learn that the answer is now ‘yes’.  We are rolling out the service with what we believe is the definitive study assessing the crude-by-rail phenomenon.  Learn everything you need to know about our new premium services in today’s blog.  But be warned, this is an unabashed commercial plug for our new service.  We hope you find it intriguing.