Sep 24, 2018
In just over a month, California voters will decide whether to repeal a recent 12 cents/gallon gasoline tax increase and prevent state lawmakers from increasing gas taxes in the future. The potential change could have a major impact on California’s 43 millions gal/d gasoline market. Sam Ori,...
Sep 17, 2018
On this week’s Platts Capitol Crude we look at a plan by Congress to lease unused space in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to private companies and foreign governments. We talk to Congressman Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and...
Sep 10, 2018
President Donald Trump recently signed into law expanded powers for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The inter-agency group led by the Treasury secretary reviews outside investment in US companies for potential national security threats. Refineries, upstream oil and gas...
Sep 4, 2018
Out with NAFTA, in with the US/Mexico trade deal. The agreement reached last week between Washington and Mexico City appears to include a provision the US oil and gas industry saw as critical to protecting investments in the newly opened Mexican upstream. Joshua Zive, a lawyer and trade expert at...