Keystone Pipeline Leak Disrupts U.S. Crude Supply
Crude supply moving into the U.S. was limited for the week ending November 24, as TransCanada's 590,000 bpd Keystone pipeline was shut on November 16 due to a leak in South Dakota. The pipeline...
View ArticleU.S. LNG Cargo Journeys Captured with Genscape Vesseltracker’s New Antenna...
Genscape Vesseltracker recently added 21 new antennas across Japan. The expanded AIS coverage provides insight into the major imports and exports there by sharing a near-real time view of ship arrivals...
View ArticleGenscape Joins WATT Coalition to Help Utilities Get More Out of the Electric...
Coalition Informs Regulators, Grid Operators, and Transmission Owners on the Benefits of Advanced Transmission Technologies December 8, 2017, Louisville, KY - Genscape is excited to announce that is...
View ArticleEIA Revisions Support Genscape Estimates of 2017 Power Burn
Genscape's power burn estimates have proven to be more accurate than the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Our models had been indicating that the EIA was significantly underestimating...
View ArticleCove Point LNG Not Constrained by Upstream Supply
Dominion Resources’ Cove Point offshore liquid natural gas (LNG) shipping terminal, located on the western Chesapeake coast of Maryland, is currently in the process of commissioning its new export...
View ArticleGenscape’s Recently Launched High-Frequency Libyan Production Monitor: A...
Estimating monthly oil production for most countries prior to the release of official statistics is challenging. It can require combining export cargo tracking with “well-placed sources” who can share...
View ArticleGenscape Infrared Service Significantly Improved Using the Latest in Machine...
While the majority of Genscape’s proprietary network consists of electromagnetic field (EMF) monitors, they are not the only way that Genscape is able to capture critical market data. When EMF...
View ArticleGrowing Canadian Production Sends Storage to Record High
Crude inventories at Genscape-monitored storage locations in Western Canada reached the highest level on record in the week ending December 8, 2017, as growing production further surpassed the region’s...
View ArticleEthanol Trade between the U.S. & China Spikes in Wake of Price Drop
Since early October, it has been reported that the fuel ethanol arbitrage window from the U.S. to China has officially opened. This comes after the Chinese government implemented a hefty 30 percent...
View ArticleHaftar Versus the UN & LPA Disintegration: What Will Happen to Libyan Oil...
Libya has approximately 1mn bpd of production today and has claimed that it could approach 1.5mn bpd in the next few years, and ultimately much higher production by 2022, making the country a...
View ArticleWhat is the Value in Pictures from Space? NPR Planet Money Rockets into...
NPR’s popular Planet Money podcast recently blasted off into orbit with a multi-episode series about the ongoing revolution in data derived from satellites. In Episode 2 of the series titled, “Wait,...
View ArticleFlows Resume on Forties Pipeline System Following Two-Week Outage
Around 400,000 bpd of North Sea production was shut-in for more than two weeks in December 2017 after a crack was discovered in the Forties pipeline. Production from more than 80 North Sea fields,...
View ArticleLibya: Genscape’s December Production Expectation, Waha Oil Co. & the...
There are clear indications that Libyan production is beginning to consistently exceed the pro rata “soft cap” that it and Nigeria purportedly agreed to (Nigeria 1.8 mm bpd and Libya 1.0 mm bpd) during...
View ArticleRecord Freeze-Offs Result from Widespread Winter Weather
Widespread winter weather over the past two weeks has led to new records on both the production and the consumption sides of North American natural gas. In addition to the well-documented Northeast...
View ArticleMajor Construction at Cargill Wichita Captured by Genscape’s Soybean...
Genscape currently has a significant independent monitoring presence in all six of the National Oilseed Processors Association’s (NOPA) reporting regions. Current crushing margins stand at greater than...
View ArticleCrude Supply Chain Thaws Following Extreme Winter Weather
The oil industry was as thrilled as anyone to see the ferocious 2017 hurricane season come to an end. Though the reprieve was short-lived, as the U.S. ushered in the New Year by being battered with...
View ArticleGenscape’s Africa Supply Report Reflected the Angolan Government’s 2018...
Following the 2016 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cut, Angola agreed to cut 78kbpd by 2017 to remain compliant with the OPEC policy. However, throughout 2017, Angolan production...
View ArticlePlant Operational Patterns – Are They Always Driven by Wholesale Power Market...
Power plant managers are continuously looking for ways to increase earnings by optimising plant operations. In order to do so they provide ancillary services, follow re-dispatch instructions, or...
View ArticleGenscape Regulatory Data Provides Full Permian View, Midland-to-Sealy...
With additional Permian-outbound pipeline capacity announced seemingly every month, it is worth exploring each artery out of the production region. Knowing the capacities of outbound pipelines isn't...
View ArticleEric Fell: Natural Gas Forecasting Champ 2017
Genscape is thrilled to announce that its lead Forward Supply & Demand analyst, Eric Fell, was named 2017’s "Most Accurate Natural Gas Storage Forecaster in The Land" by The Desk, a publication of...
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