Aug 27, 2018
US Senator Tina Smith, Democrat-Minnesota, joins Capitol Crude to share how President Donald Trump’s biofuel policies and trade wars are playing in the Midwest ahead of the November midterm elections. In Iowa this summer, Trump said he would approve year-round E15 sales “very...
Aug 20, 2018
US lawmakers in both chambers of Congress have proposed a raft of new sanctions to counter Russian interference in US elections and alleged use of banned weapons. Most of the bills target energy trade or investment, whether it's Russian joint ventures with western oil companies or the Nord Stream 2...
Aug 13, 2018
Colorado voters will decide in November whether to expand land setbacks for oil and gas wells. We spoke with Dan Eberhart, CEO of Denver-based oilfield services company Canary, about how the proposed rule could limit the state’s production potential. Eberhart, whose company manufactures...
Aug 7, 2018
Criminals used to evade US energy sanctions. Now, longtime US allies and trading partners likely will, Richard Nephew, a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, tells the Platts Capitol Crude podcast. In Part 2 of our interview with Nephew, he...
Aug 6, 2018
On today’s S&P Global Platts Capitol Crude, we’re talking about the impact of Iran sanctions on oil prices and future global supply. Richard Nephew, a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, talks about how Iran may mitigate the price...