Oct 28, 2019
The 2020 fight over energy policy is just getting started, and investors already have a bad case of heartburn over Democratic presidential candidates' proposals to ban all fracking in the US. Katie Bays, who advises institutional investors as co-founder of Sandhill Strategy in Washington, joins us...
Oct 23, 2019
The future of Citgo and its three US refineries hangs on this weekend's deadline for the interim Venezuelan government to make a massive bond payment that it can't likely pay. The Guaido administration's ad-hoc PDVSA board could lose control of Citgo because the loan is backed by a 50.1% stake in...
Oct 21, 2019
On this week’s Platts Capitol Crude we talk with Keisuke Sadamori, the International Energy Agency’s director for energy markets and security, about the US’ changing role in the global oil market and necessity of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The SPR wasn’t tapped...
Oct 14, 2019
Venezuela is in the midst of an economic collapse, its political future remains uncertain and Citgo appears unlikely to be able to pay a more than $900 million bond payment due later this month. Could creditors soon seize Venezuela’s core foreign asset, including three major crude oil...
Oct 7, 2019
International buyers of US crude exports are increasingly seeking specific grades that once made up the blended pool of West Texas Intermediate. Buyers can request these "neat" barrels, thanks in part to new pipelines from the Permian to the Texas Gulf Coast that allow shippers to separate...