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“Come Sail Away” – The Opportunities and Challenges of the Refined Products...
By John R. Auers Over the last few weeks and months we’ve devoted a variety of blogs to various aspects of the rapidly changing petroleum supply and demand balance in the U.S. One of the most...
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Just What I Needed – DAPL to Help Revive Bakken Production?
BY Andy Hill, John Mayes and John Auers While activity in the Permian basin has been booming of late and even the Eagle Ford has shown strong signs of reversing the steep declines seen over the last 18...
View Article“With or Without You” – Several Refinery Projects Could Hold Key to Global...
By: John Auers As in any industry, economic prospects for refiners depend on both supply and demand developments. On the demand side, refiners are dependent on market developments over which they...
View Article“With or Without You” – Which Refinery Projects Could Hold Key to Global...
By: John Auers Last week we discussed the potential fate and impact of a variety of proposed large refinery capacity expansions in the Western Hemisphere. These are all projects that are included in...
View Article“With or Without You” – Which Refinery Projects Could Hold Key to Global...
By: John Auers Last week, in the second of what will be a four-part series, we discussed the potential fate and impact of a variety of proposed large refinery capacity expansions in the fastest...
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“With or Without You” – Which Refinery Projects Could Hold Key to Global...
By: John Auers and John Mayes In this last of our “round the world” examination of refinery capacity developments, we move on to a couple of adjacent regions with drastically different but somewhat...
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“Never Been Any Reason” – Trump Administration Considers Rollback of CAFE...
By John Auers Many words can and have been used to describe the first 100 days of the Trump Administration. This landmark period, which actually ends next Saturday, has been termed everything from...
View Article“I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” – First 100 Days of Trump’s America First...
By John Auers and John Mayes Everybody’s been issuing their report cards for the first 100 days of the Trump Administration and by and large, we’re not seeing a lot of A’s. In fact, the classic Stones...
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Autonomous Vehicles: “Just what I (Electric Vehicles) Needed”
By: Robert Auers and John Auers Many analysts are proclaiming that the recent trend toward ride-sharing, brought on by Uber and Lyft, combined with the advancing development of autonomous vehicles...
View Article“Your Cheatin’ Heart” – Compliance Issues Cause Uncertainty About Low Sulfur...
By: John Auers The decision last October by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to go forward with the mandatory introduction of low sulfur bunker fuel in 2020 has been a major topic of...
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O Canada – Results of Election North of the 49th Parallel Could Hold the...
John Auers and John Mayes The upset election of Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. Presidential contest certainly gave new found hope to TransCanada’s long suffering Keystone XL (KXL) crude pipeline...
View ArticleMemorial Day 2017 – Remember Why We Celebrate
There’s no question that both the upstream and downstream segments of the U.S. petroleum industry have experienced some challenges over the past couple of years. However, there is even less doubt that...
View ArticleAVIATION BIOFUELS: Who will get what and how? Lofty and Unattainable Goals!
Author: Larry Sullivan Aviation produces as little as 2% or up to 5% of the world’s carbon or GHG emissions depending on whether UN or EU data sources are used. While either figure is small in the...
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“Born To Run” – U.S. Crude Starting to “Run” to Overseas Destinations
John Auers and Elizabeth Hilbourn The year 1975 was a while ago, 42 years to be exact. In some ways, it was a tough year for OPEC as “Carlos the Jackal” led a deadly terrorist attack at their...
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“I Can See Clearly Now”- WTI Quality Characteristics Now Available!
The following Turning Point blog is provided by Dennis Sutton. Following a 40-year career with Marathon Petroleum, Dennis is now a Principal in the consulting firm, PetroQual, and serves as the...
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“Slumdog Millionaire” – Part 2; Indian State-owned Companies’ Plan for...
By John Mayes and John Auers Last year (May 10, 2016) we wrote a blog describing the success that Indian private refiners Reliance and Essar have had in building and operating large, complex...
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“Riders On the Storm” – Obligated Parties Continue to Struggle With RFS...
By Elizabeth Hilbourn and John Auers The classic Doors tune, “Riders on the Storm” can be an appropriate description on how refiners and other obligated parties feel in managing their renewable fuel...
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“Roadhouse Blues” – How Biodiesel RIN Issues Could Challenge Refiners
By Elizabeth Hilbourn and John Auers Developments, regarding the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program, continue to make the news with EPA’s release of the proposed 2018 requirements last week. For...
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“People are Strange” and so are Biodiesel & Renewable Diesel Limitations
By Elizabeth Hilbourn and John Auers Over the past two weeks we have used two of The Doors classics, “Riders on the Storm” and “Roadhouse Blues,” as lead in’s to a discussion of various issues...
View Article“Don’t Do Me Like That” – IMO Bunker Rules to Provide Major Challenges to...
Stu Ehrenriech/Cascade Resources and John Auers The decision last October by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to move forward with significantly lowering the sulfur content of bunker...
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