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LNG Canada didn’t load its first cargo until June 2025, more than nine years after Sabine Pass LNG was up and running in Louisiana. But while the U.S. Gulf Coast had a big head start, Canada is finally firing on all cylinders, with plans to more than triple its LNG export capacity by the early 2030s.
U.S. rules around decommissioning offshore oil and gas platforms were rewritten in 2024, but the Trump administration paused their implementation in 2025. Today, we examine the proposed revisions, which aim to reduce regulatory costs without shifting decommissioning liabilities to taxpayers.
Crude Oil TradeView provides up-to-date data and insights into the behavior of differentials for 33 crude assessments across North America. Each week, it also walks you through the reasoning of why differentials widen, narrow, flip (premium vs. discount), or blow out.
According to the EIA’s Weekly Petroleum Status Report (WPSR), U.S. crude net imports surged 1.8 MMb/d in the week ended August 7 to 4.3 MMb/d (red dashed oval in chart below), their highest weekly level since June 2025. Put simply, net imports measure the amount of crude entering the U.S.
U.S. propane inventories rose more than expected, reaching their highest level since last fall and climbing 30% above the five-year average. The East Coast drove this week’s build, while the Gulf Coast remained the foundation of the country’s elevated inventory position.
On August 1, France-flagged vessel Champagny, delivered 313.2 Mbbl (~10 Mb/d) of propane from Energy Transfer's Marcus Hook terminal in Pennsylvania to the Sea-3 terminal in Rhode Island (RI). This is the sixth movement of propane under the Jones Act waiver issued March 17, and recently extended on August 10. It is notably the first instance of propane moving within the lower-48 states under the waiver, as all shipments until then had been destined for Puerto Rico.
Efforts to move more natural gas into gas-starved New England are picking up steam. Enbridge said Project Beacon’s open season was better than expected, while DT Midstream is moving ahead with one Millennium Pipeline expansion and considering a much larger one.
On Monday August 10, the Trump Administration extended its temporary Jones Act waiver for an additional 90 days, keeping the exemption in place through mid-November as the war with Iran continues to disrupt global crude and refined-product flows and elevate U.S. energy costs.
Crude Oil Permian provides detailed analysis of the fundamental drivers impacting the Permian Basin crude oil market including weekly data, analysis and market intelligence updates of: Permian crude oil supply and demand, pipeline outflows and capacity, prices, and infrastructure updates.
Haynesville natural gas production climbed to a new record last week and continues to rise, with August levels exceeding July’s average production rate.
There has been no 11-figure upstream M&A since Devon Energy and Coterra Energy announced their $21.4 billion merger in early February, just a few weeks before the war on Iran started and the Strait of Hormuz was closed. But other, somewhat smaller — but still noteworthy — deals continue to happen.
Sempra discussed LNG project timelines and Texas electric demand in its 2nd quarter earnings call.
