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Capitol Crude: The US Energy Policy Podcast

Feb 29, 2016

Rusty Braziel, CEO of RBN Energy and author of "The Domino Effect," stops by to talk with Platts senior oil editor Brian Scheid about some of the biggest influences on US shale producers at the moment, as well as questions about the future of crude oil.Would OPEC members or other big producers give...


Feb 22, 2016

The US is likely to raise its gasoline octane standard over the next decade or so, which has the ethanol industry shifting into high gear its fight to become a preferred blendstock. Platts senior editor Herman Wang talks with Jeff Bair, Platts' managing editor for light ends, at the National...


Feb 8, 2016

What does it mean for American oil supply and the policies around the oil industry when US crude producers are losing billions of dollars? Platts senior editors Herman Wang and Brian Scheid talk with Starr Spencer, senior editor for oil news, to learn about how earnings are going down for upstream...


Feb 1, 2016

More than a month after longstanding limits on US crude exports were lifted, some unintended consequences of the policy shift are emerging. While American crude has started to trickle out on to the world market, cargoes of crude grades the US hasn't seen in years are beginning to appear in domestic...