Mar 25, 2019
On this week’s Capitol Crude, Frank Verrastro and Andrew Stanley with the Center for Strategic & International Studies’ energy and national security program talk about the state of Venezuela’s oil sector, the impact of US sanctions on PDVSA and what recovery might look like....
Mar 18, 2019
Platts Capitol Crude was in Houston last week talking with S&P Global editors about three stories shaping the domestic oil market. Laura Huchzermeyer, managing editor, Americas crude, and Catherine Wood, associate editor, Americas dirty tanker markets, talk about skyrocketing US crude exports...
Capitol Crude at CERAWeek: Is US foreign policy now managing the oil market?
Mar 13, 2019
After years of complaints from US policymakers that OPEC was having undue influence on global oil prices, has US foreign policy become the major manager of the world crude market? With sanctions, tweets from President Trump and trade disputes, the US may now be the prominent driver of Brent prices....
Mar 11, 2019
On this special edition of Platts Capitol Crude from CERAWeek by IHS Markit in Houston we’re talking about the shifting global flows in crude grades. Demand for heavy crudes, due largely to US sanctions on Venezuela and Iran, is growing as production of light oil reaches historic highs....
Mar 8, 2019
On this early edition of Capitol Crude, we predict the top themes of next week’s CERAWeek, the mega-conference where US shale producers, US government officials and OPEC ministers rub elbows. We spoke with American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Mike Sommers about surging US oil...