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Capitol Crude: The US Energy Policy Podcast

Feb 24, 2020

As investors and consumers demand more focus on sustainability, the oil industry is feeling the pressure.
What will an energy transition mean for liquid fuel use, and will oil refiners be able to respond to radical shifts in demand in the coming decades?
We spoke with Madhav Acharya, the technology to market adviser...


Feb 18, 2020

Even with the Democratic candidate still uncertain, this November’s US presidential election presents two distinctly divergent paths forward for global oil policy, David Goldwyn says on today’s Platts Capitol Crude podcast.

Goldwyn, president of Goldwyn Global Strategies and chair of the Atlantic Council’s energy...


Feb 10, 2020

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney hopes to end his government's oil production curtailments this year as rail and pipeline capacity expand to handle the full supply.

The province posted record-high oil production in December despite the curtailments, as exemptions for crude-by-rail shipments allowed producers to boost...


Feb 3, 2020


After more than a year of crippling US sanctions, Venezuela’s once-thriving oil sector is a shell of its former self: its output just a fraction of its peak, its state-run oil company toxic to international investors, its pipelines crumbling, its refineries closed.

A new report from the Inter-American Dialogue argues...