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Capitol Crude: The US Energy Policy Podcast

Oct 31, 2022

The pace of drilling and well completions activity in US oil and gas fields has slowed in late 2022 from the ramp up seen earlier in the year as premium equipment and crews to run it have become increasingly tight.

But overall, 2023 should be a year of growth, although much depends on upstream operators’ capital...


Oct 24, 2022

The US Supreme Court recently held oral arguments in a case that the oil and gas industry is hoping will end some of the back-and-forth regulatory scramble over whether certain wetlands and water sources fall under federal jurisdiction. The high court is examining whether the Waters of the US regulation, or WOTUS, uses...


Oct 17, 2022

There has been a lot of back and forth lately over whether political factors motivated the recent OPEC decision to cut crude oil production. One thing that’s for certain is that supply risks to the global oil markets are running high, and the coming EU ban on seaborne Russian crude and G7 implementation of a price cap...


Oct 10, 2022

OPEC and its allies slashed production targets for the next 14 months by 2 million b/d, signaling that the bloc is set on managing global production in a way that maintains a higher oil price, according to market analysts. At higher prices, oil companies are continuing to produce enormous amounts of free-cash-flow, and...


Oct 3, 2022

Rotting food, farm waste and sewage don’t sound all that appealing, but they’re the bread and butter of the biogas industry – an industry that believes it has a pivotal role to play in providing green solutions to address the energy crisis spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the impending food...