Impact of $400 bil Russia-China oil-linked gas supply deal on China
After over a decade of prolonged talks, Russia and China have finally inked a historic gas deal, with Gazprom supplying 38 bcm/year of gas to CNPC for 30 years from 2018. Mriganka Jaipuriyar, senior e...
30 Maj 20145min
US spreads shift, companies eye processing possibilities as NGLs rise
Increased focus on US shale plays has contributed to an sharp increase of natural gas and NGL production. With more natural gas liquids flooding the market, the price relationship between gas, NGLs an...
21 Maj 20147min
Asian benzene may still flow to US after record long arbitrage ends
Ng Bao Ying, Platts senior Asian petrochemicals editor and Vernon Lee, Platts petrochemicals editor, provide in-depth analysis on where benzene volumes have been flowing to in recent months, with the ...
15 Maj 20146min
US natural gas markets settling down on spring's arrival
Spring finally arrrived and the US natural gas markets have finally settled down. But storage injections are well behind the averages and there is a lot of gas to get into the tank after this winter's...
14 Maj 20145min
Oil, gas production in East Africa includes juggling local, global demands
Bob Fryklund, chief upstream strategist, IHS Energy, spoke with Platts web editor Elizabeth Bassett about challenges the energy industry will face in East Africa on the fourth day of the 45th Offshore...
8 Maj 20146min
DOE pursues production R&D in 'ferociously difficult' budget environment: official
Platts web editor Elizabeth Bassett spoke with Christopher Smith, principal deputy assistant secretary for fossil energy with the Department of Energy, at the Offshore Technology Conference. Smith was...
6 Maj 20145min
US natural gas prices up as weatherman blows hot and cold
Warm weather out West and continued below-average temperatures in Chicago and the East bolstered US natural gas prices as the May futures contract held its own to roll off the board at $4.79/MMBtu. Ga...
29 Apr 20145min
US ethylene market on edge as prices climb and outages continue
Platts petrochemicals editor Pavel Pavlov talks about what's been driving up the US ethylene market, where spot prices recently hit a 12-week high. Both planned and unplanned outages have been spurrin...
28 Apr 20145min
