Trading appears carefree in US natural gas markets
Natural gas futures and spot traders have little reason to be bullish as colder-than-normal temperatures blanket natural gas burning markets, with one exception: California. Production is still increa...
4 Aug 20146min
Oil companies increase US acreage swaps, seeking efficiency
Oil companies are swapping acreage in the US to become more efficient and better plan drilling and midstream infrastructure. Starr Spencer, Platts senior editor, oil news, discusses which companies ha...
1 Aug 20146min
Bulls flee N. American gas market as temperatures moderate
The bulls are fleeing the North American natural gas market as hopes for a hotter-than-normal summer have disappeared. That leaves the bears in charge with moderate August weather in the forecasts and...
21 Juli 20145min
Prices pressured upward for US ethylene, downstream markets
US spot ethylene assessments rose to their highest levels in more than a year earlier in the week, and the tightness in the polyethylene export market hearkens back to the aftermath of Hurricane Katri...
18 Juli 20146min
Polar vortex redux weighs on US gas markets
Platts North American natural gas editor Patrick Badgley explains how a mass of arctic air is expected to move across the US this week, and in many places natural gas prices are lower than last year. ...
17 Juli 20146min
South Stream gas pipeline project likely to go ahead
Platts' Stuart Elliott, associate editorial director, Europe and Africa oil news and Rosemary Griffin, associate editor, discuss the potential impact of ongoing tension between Russia and the EU over ...
16 Juli 20147min
US temperatures, but not gas prices, climb
Air conditioners are cranking up across much of the US, but Hurricane Arthur left comfortable temperatures in its wake in other natural gas consuming areas. Platts Gas Daily editors Rodney White, TL H...
8 Juli 20145min
Interview: EU carbon market regulation and reform (part 2)
Ahead of Platts' European Emissions Markets conference in Brussels on September 29, 2014, Frank Watson, Platts Managing Editor for European emissions markets, interviews Jesse Scott, head of the Envir...
25 Juni 201410min
