Platts Energy Spotlight Podcast
By Platts
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Podcast Description
This is the latest in a series of weekly podcasts aimed at highlighting significant news stories from around the energy world.
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PVC production trimmed amidst low seasonal demand | Francinia Protti and David Potter, editors on Platts European petrochemicals team, discuss the current state of the European PVC market, which is struggling with poor demand from a construction sector impacted by the poor macroeconomic outlook. | 21 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Intense coal-to-gas switching in US Southeast in-the-money through 2014 | Platts Chang Noh, North American coal reporter, and Samantha Santa Maria, North American gas editor, discuss how coal-to-gas switching in the US' biggest power consuming region of the Southeast has been led by historically low natural gas prices and declining electricity margins in the near-term, but compelled by federal regulations and aggressive new power plant and pipeline builds in the long-term. | 15 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Revenue sharing bill could foster more offshore oil, gas drilling | Keith Chu, associate editor, Platts Inside Energy, discusses US Senator Ron Wyden’s announcement that, if he takes control of the Senate Energy Committee next year, he would try to pass a reveneue sharing bill and what that could mean for drilling safety legislation. | 11 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Power grid operators worry about geomagnetic storms | Jason Fordney, associate editor with Platts US electric power news, discusses the controversy concerning solar storms and their effect on the electric power grid and legislation that would require the industry to make improvements and give the federal government more authority to require protective measures. | 10 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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US natural gas summer 2012 outlook | Platts North American natural gas spot market editors, Liz Bassett and Patrick Badgely, discuss the markets most likely to be affected by price volatility this summer and assess the likelihood of weather conditions impacting gas demand. | 8 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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US Rockies gas production to remain steady despite sub-$2 prices | Eunice Bridges, associate editor of Platts Gas Daily, discusses why natural gas production in the US Rockies is expected to remain steady -- and even increase -- despite spot prices hovering below $2/MMBtu throughout the region. | 3 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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US polyethylene export market stagnating | Ben Morse, senior editor, discusses buyers globally not reacting to an increase in prices in the polyethylene market. | 26 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Europe's gas paradox | William Powell, outlines how despite the low carbon credentials of gas, it is still not as profitable in Europe as coal, and looks at both the issues surrounding gas contracts' indexation to oil, as well as the reaction of midstream companies to the industry's downturn. | 23 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How will Japanese demand for LNG affect Asia in 2012? | Platts Asia LNG managing editor Hong Chou Hui, gives an insight towards how Japanese LNG demand could affect the Asian markets in 2012. | 13 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Duke Energy still seeking to buy Progress Energy | Esther Whieldon, associate editor, discusses the year-long attempt by Duke Energy to buy Progress Energy, which would make Duke one of the largest electric utilities in the United States with roughly 7 million electric customers. | 11 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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European orthoxylene to set new record on second wind of domestic demand/tight supply | NWE petrochemical editor, and Miguel Cambeiro, senior petrochemical editor, discuss how the orthoxylene market is set to strengthen further on its own good domestic demand/tight supply fundamentals, despite volatile Asian export market. | 5 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Slowdown of natural gas drilling in the Montney Shale | Eunice Bridges, assistant editor, discusses the reasons behind a drilling pullback in the Montney Shale in Western Canada when producers are not pulling back in other liquids-rich plays such as the Eagle Ford in South Texas. | 2 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Utica Shale poised to become big gas, liquids resource for Northeast US | Elizabeth Bassett, North American natural gas reporter, explains how various energy companies are planning to build new pipelines and processing plants in the Utica Shale to take advantage of possible natural gas and natural gas liquids there, and the new projects could mean more money and jobs for Ohio. | 29 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Costs, not demand, pushing up US polyethylene prices | Ben Morse, senior editor, discusses the US polyethylene market and how costs, not demand, have driven up prices in the first quarter of 2012. | 22 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Slow demand and high stocks pressure European biofuels in Q1 | Guilherme Kfouri, associate editor for Platts EMEA fuel ethanol, and Maria Tsay, assistant editor for Platts EMEA biodiesel, discuss factors that have been pressuring European biofuels markets in the first quarter of 2012. | 21 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Litigation impacting regulation of greenhouse gas emissions | Cathy Cash, senior editor, discusses a case before the appeals court, Coalition for Responsible Regulation versus EPA, which consolidates four major challenges to the federal government’s ability to tackle greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources for the first time. | 19 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Challenging times for natural gas storage sector | Patrick Badgley, associate editor covering the natural gas spot markets, discusses the high levels of gas remaining in storage after a mild winter, shale as a game changer, and strict EPA rules that could lead to more natural gas development in lieu of coal. | 13 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why are Asian isomer-grade mixed xylene markets climbing to record highs? | Joycelyn Chua, associate editor for mixed xylene, and Ng Baoying, associate editor for the Platts Asia Petrochemicals team, discuss how the rise of Asian isomer-grade mixed xylene prices to record levels could be the result of more than just firm paraxylene prices. | 8 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Likelihood of Russian energy policy change post presidential election | Stuart Elliott, Platts senior managing editor for Europe & Africa oil news, and Nadia Rodova, Platts Moscow bureau chief, discuss Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's chances of victory in the upcoming presidential election; focus on the likelihood of changes to energy policy in the country; and examine how Russia might best maintain its position as a global oil and gas superpower. | 1 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Propylene prices volatile in the US | Bernardo Fallas, associate editor for Platts petrochemicals, describes how crude refiners are facing low margins, which curtails the supply of refinery grade propylene, which in turn affects the polypropylene side of the downstream markets. The short-term outlook for propylene will continue to be tight whereas the long-term outlook could involve building more all-purpose propylene plants. | 28 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 20 Episodes |
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