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Capitol Crude: The US Energy Policy Podcast

Aug 31, 2020

The November presidential election adds to risks for natural gas pipelines, which link production to demand centers but increasingly face opposition from those seeking to phase out fossil fuels.

For interstate gas pipelines, the federal government remains an important gatekeeper for permitting.

If Democratic nominee Joe...


Aug 24, 2020

A victory in November for former Vice President Joe Biden in November could influence oil and gas companies' decarbonization plans, given Biden's climate and clean energy proposals.

European oil majors tend to outpace their US counterparts in terms of climate goals, likely due to the European Green Deal,
but could a...


Aug 17, 2020

Global oil supply far exceeds demand right now as the coronavirus pandemic keeps travel restrictions in place and commuters working from home.

Commodities analysts Leigh Goehring and Adam Rozencwajg, managing partners of Goehring and Rozencwajg, argue that the pandemic and current oil market conditions will be a...


Aug 10, 2020

Guyana is one of the most promising new sources for non-OPEC oil production growth, and the country just emerged from a chaotic five-month election drama. Opposition leader Mohamed Irfaan Ali was sworn into office as the country's new president last week.

The small South American country is home to the biggest...


Aug 3, 2020

US oil producers have started bringing some shut-in wells back online since this spring's price crash.

S&P Global Platts Analytics expects the nearly all the shut-in volumes to come back by October. But US oil output will continue to decline as a result of some $41 billion in capital expenditure cuts announced by...