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Nuclear Energy in Japan - a Future yet to Be Defined
The election of Ryuichi Yoneyama, an anti-nuclear campaigner, as Governor of the Niigata prefecture on October 16, 2016, has cast serious doubts on the nuclear restart agenda advocated by the Abe...
View ArticleGenscape Maritime Offers Exclusive Vessel Coverage of U.S. Inland Waterways
Proprietary Antenna Network Offers Customers Market-Leading Insight into Ship Movements and Commodity Flows in North AmericaDecember 1, 2016, Louisville, KY - Genscape, a leading global provider of...
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ARA-Rhine Gasoil Flows Rise Along With Water Levels
Shipments of barges carrying gasoil from the key Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage hub to destinations along the Rhine River have increased markedly in the last two weeks. A...
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The OPEC Production Agreement: Genscape’s Outlook for an Uptick in U.S....
With the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries reaching an agreement to cut production, Genscape expects resulting higher crude prices to spur U.S. producers to add 125 more rigs by mid-2017. A...
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North Dakota Rail Shipments to Increase on DAPL Easement Denial, OPEC...
Crude-by-rail shipments are expected to increase from North Dakota in coming months due to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC) recent decision to curtail oil production and an...
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Genscape’s November 2016 NOPA National Soybean Crush Estimate
Genscape’s November 2016 NOPA national crush estimate was 160.7 million bushels, precisely forecasting NOPA’s 160.752 million bushels released on December 15, 2016. Most market expectations were higher...
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Energy in Transition: Total’s First Biorefinery Transformation
Idling of Total’s 153,000 bpd Provence (La Mède), France, refinery began on November 18 with the shutdown of a sulfur recovery unit (SRU), according to real-time Genscape refinery alerts. Total is...
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Zeroing in on U.S. Crude Runs: An Outlook for 2017 Guided by Genscape’s...
Genscape expects U.S. crude runs to grow by +295 Mb/d in 2017, primarily due to a lighter turnaround slate and crude distillation unit capacity additions.The downside risk to the forecast is how much...
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Falling Temperatures Impacting Natural Gas Production Levels – Genscape’s...
The first winter storm of 2017 crossed dozens of state boundaries and had significant impacts to Lower 48 natural gas production. Total freeze-off estimates peaked at ~2.224 Bcf/d on Saturday, January...
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Permian Crude Production and Inventories Rebound following December Freeze-offs
Like previous years, cold weather impacted the West Texas Permian crude oil supply chain this winter. Genscape data showed the impact of the recent freezing temperatures on production, storage levels,...
View ArticleLNG Floating Storage: Passing Trend or More Permanent?
At the end of 2015, global LNG production was approximately 35 bcf/d. By 2019, global supply is set to increase by 40 percent with the U.S. and Australia planning to bring another 15 bcf/d online....
View ArticleBulk Carrier Breakdown Leads to Elbe River Traffic Spike
A Marshall Islands flagged bulk carrier “Cape Leonidas,” suffered engine damage on the Elbe River inbound to the Port of Hamburg on January 17, 2017 at about 4:00am (UTC). The carrier blocked major...
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All Eyes on Imports & Exports: The Changing Dynamics of Fertilizer Supply...
Inexpensive natural gas and a robust agricultural economy have triggered renewed interest in the expansion of fertilizer production in the United States. Recently, CF Industries has increased capacity...
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Impacts of the Keystone XL Pipeline
On January 24, 2017, President Donald Trump took steps to move forward with the construction of both the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines. According to a Bloomberg News article, Trump...
View ArticleMaking the Leap from Broker to Retailer
There are many reasons a broker might consider becoming a retail supplier. They may want transparency and control over the margins embedded in their customer’s retail energy contracts. They may want to...
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2017 Water Year: A Blockbuster for California Hydro
For the past five years, California has been devastated by an extraordinary drought. The state’s historic drought reached its peak during the summer of 2014, when 58 percent of California was in an...
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Fairway’s Caverns, Other Projects to Expand U.S. Gulf Coast Crude Storage...
Construction is nearing completion on two brine ponds associated with Fairway Energy Partners’ underground crude storage cavern project just south of Houston. Of the 11 million barrels (bbls) of...
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Genscape Vesseltracker™ Antenna Network Expands in Bangladesh, Thailand &...
Marine transport is essential to the global economy; more than 90 percent of the world’s trade carried by water, since it is the most cost-effective option for moving goods, commodities, and raw...
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Increased Visibility into Fertilizer Vessel Movements through Genscape...
One large vessel likely arriving into New Orleans carrying an important fertilizer can significantly shift the product’s supply to demand ratio and impact the market and prices. For instance, large...
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Baltic GO/ULSD Exports Support ARA Stocks
Total exports of gasoil and Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) cargoes from load ports in the Baltic Sea have remained steadily above a 500 KMT per-week total over the past four weeks. For the week ending...
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