Jun 29, 2015
You can come out of your tinfoil bunker: The Obama administration's recently announced plans to regulate commercial aircraft emissions, but any effects would likely be years in the future. Platts senior oil editors and Herman Wang and Brian Scheid wonder if this is part of a government conspiracy...
Jun 22, 2015
Did the Obama administration turn a T-Rex of a problem into an Indominus Rex of a problem, by requiring electronically controlled pneumatic brakes on oil trains? After watching Jurassic World, the much-hyped sequel to Jurassic Park, Brian Scheid and Herman Wang break down the administration's...
Jun 8, 2015
The US isn't a part of OPEC, and no government officials attended the OPEC meeting in Vienna last week, but the US and its shale oil boom were still on people's minds at the conference and summit. Platts senior editors Herman Wang -- who was in Vienna -- and Brian Scheid recap the conference and...
Jun 8, 2015
Is a new plan by Congress to sell 64 million barrels of crude from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve like a get-rich-quick scheme that's just too good to be true? Platts senior editors Brian Scheid and Herman Wang look at whether this plan could lead to an actual profit or just a convenient way to...
Jun 1, 2015
Summer is starting, and while Platts senior editors Brian Scheid and Herman Wang start thinking of sunscreen and sunglasses, Shell is planning to drill offshore Alaska. The plan has received conditional approval from the Obama administration, but it's drawn fierce opposition from environmental...