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Warm winter keeps natural gas prices subdued, production growth in question
The natural gas market has worked itself into an interesting situation recently. The combination of a warm winter in 2015-16, declining associated production, lack of new infrastructure and coal...
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Why the crude rally has fizzled, concluded: Market analysis series
This is the third and final segment of a three-part look at why oil prices have failed to rally despite OPEC’s best efforts at managing supply cuts. Not only have prices failed to rally, both NYMEX WTI...
View ArticleCrude storage costs rise in first auction following Hurricane Harvey: In the...
The price of front-month sour crude oil storage at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port on Tuesday sold at its highest level since May while at least 2 million b/d of Texas refining capacity remains offline...
View ArticleSeptember crude imports at LOOP up 10% from average following Harvey: In The...
The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port continues to experience a surge in crude oil imports more than two weeks after Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas Gulf Coast and prevented ports in that state from receiving...
View ArticleCrude storage costs fall as WTI curve flattens: In the LOOP
The price of front-month sour crude oil storage at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port fell 5 cents/b month on month even as imports to the US Gulf Coast increased over the same period to pre-Harvey...
View ArticleTerminal reports sharp rebound in LOOP Sour cavern exports for June
The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port delivered more than 1.1 million barrels of the blended crude LOOP Sour ex-cavern in June, more than double the amount it delivered in May, the oil terminal said Monday....
View ArticleMidland WTI gets its own cavern at LOOP crude terminal
The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port has quietly allocated one of its eight underground crude oil storage caverns to West Texas Intermediate, a reflection of the Texas grade’s continued ascent as the US’...
View ArticleEx-cavern LOOP Sour deliveries hit nearly 1 million barrels in September
LOOP Sour ex-cavern deliveries in September were just shy of 1 million barrels, and it appears companies are more interested in refining the crude blend rather than storing it given the backwardated...
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Insight: US natural gas, coal markets calm about low inventories … for now
The growth of low-priced natural gas supply from Appalachia and Texas appears to be changing the market calculus on winter heating demand this year. With pre-winter gas inventories sitting at their...
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Rapid US natural gas storage injections put pressure on prices
As what remains of the Henry Hub summer strip moves below $2.30/MMBtu, US natural gas prices at multiple hubs could stay subdued during the summer months. Regional dynamics mean underground storage...
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