Feb 26, 2018
US oil refiners consider this year to be their best shot in a decade at reforming the Renewable Fuel Standard, and they are holding up a Philadelphia refinery as a poster child of what is wrong with the biofuel mandate.Two sides of the RFS reform debate go head-to-head in this week's Platts Capitol...
Feb 20, 2018
The Trump administration is considering sanctions on Venezuelan oil exports, but is worried they could bankrupt a refinery along the US Gulf Coast, a top energy adviser to President Donald Trump tells Platts Capitol Crude.On this week’s podcast, George David Banks, who stepped down as White...
Feb 20, 2018
It was chaos in the White House when George David Banks arrived at the White House, he tells Platts Capitol Crude. Banks, who stepped down as White House Special Assistant at the National Economic Council and National Security Council last week, talks Trump’s domestic energy policy, including...
Feb 12, 2018
US oil output is already shattering records and, fueled by dramatic growth in the Permian, is expected to exceed 11 million b/d by late this year. But hurdles, from pipeline and port constraints to refining differences, remain, Kenneth Medlock tells the Platts Capitol Crude podcast this week....
Feb 5, 2018
US oil output has exceeded 10 million b/d for the first time since 1970. What does this mean for diplomacy, sanctions and trade policy? Where is the US production ceiling now?On this week’s Platts Capitol Crude podcast, Sarah Ladislaw, director of the energy and national security program at...