Meghan Gordon
Senior writer, oil 
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January 19, 2017 14:56 UTC 
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This blog post was written in collaboration with John Kingston, the Director of Global Market Insights for S&P Global. The U.S. still imports a lot of crude oil. It also now exports crude oil. It’s also the world’s biggest exporter of petroleum products. So any change in the country’s corporate tax system that has an enormous shift in the tax treatment of imports and exports is going to have the potential to impact oil flows, and by extension, oil markets. |
Keefe Borden
Editor
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January 4, 2017 17:57 UTC
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It’s essential for a daily fixture of life in the United States — a morning commute for many working Americans — and for transportation of basic goods in the US. The US is dependent on gasoline for nearly every aspect of transportation, but the hard reality for the country’s drivers is that its refiners don’t produce near enough to meet demand. Government data shows we now consume about 9.3 million b/d of gasoline nationwide. To offset the shortfall, the US imports about 710,000 b/d of gasoline — more than two cargo ships per day. |
Neil Ford
Freelance consultant and journalist
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December 13, 2016 16:11 UTC
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Fuel subsidies in Nigeria remain a thorny issue. State support for gasoline and diesel prices, both directly at the pump and through subsidies for fuel imports, places a huge burden on the national finances. A government report calculated that $8 billion out of total federal state expenditure of $22 billion in 2013 was spent on fuel subsidies. Much of that subsidized fuel does not even benefit Nigerians, as it is smuggled across the border into neighboring states where prices are higher. |
Joe Innace and Geoffrey Craig
Contributors 
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November 8, 2016 18:42 UTC
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To wrap up our series examining commodity prices and US presidential elections, we turned to Jodie Gunzberg, head of commodities and real assets at S&P Dow Jones Indices. Her recent analysis of commodity returns reveals that oil, gold and 17 out of 24 commodities overall perform better with a Democratic president, while the other seven, including all grains, have been best under a Republican commander-in-chief. |
Yen Ling Song
Senior Analyst, Platts Oil Analytics
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October 31, 2016 05:01 UTC
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The dramatic transformation that China’s vast refining landscape has undergone in the last year is rewriting the market dynamics for oil trade flows in Asia. With the deregulation of the sector and the emergence of a swathe of independent refineries on the eastern coast, the country has been flooded — more than in any previous year — by an overwhelming supply of oil products. |
John Kingston
Director of Global Market Insights
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October 19, 2016 05:01 UTC
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It may not change human behavior, but if it did, a recent AAA report on the benefits of premium gasoline might cut into what on paper looks like a pretty profitable business. |
Brian Scheid
Senior editor, oil news
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October 12, 2016 05:01 UTC
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Near the end of Sunday’s contentious and much-maligned presidential debate, Hillary Clinton made, arguably, the most revealing statement yet on the likely path of energy policy in her White House. “We’ve got to remain energy independent,” Clinton said. “It gives us much more power and freedom than to be worried about what goes on in the Middle East. We have enough worries over there without having to worry about that.” |
Mery Mogollon
Reporter
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September 26, 2016 04:27 UTC
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The failure of Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA to live up to its contractually obligated investments in Curacao’s Isla refinery has come back to bite them and they now risk losing it to China, which has stepped up to the plate with its own plan. PDVSA has operated the Di Korsou refinery, also known as Isla, and the Bullen Bay oil terminal since 1985 under a lease agreement due to expire at the end of 2019. |
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John Kingston
Director of Global Market Insights
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August 12, 2016 16:40 UTC
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There’s a famous observation that if you remember the 60’s, you really weren’t there. But if you ever waited in a gas line in the US in the 70’s, you remember it. And not fondly. All of the craziness of the two periods of gasoline lines — in 1973-1974 during the Arab oil embargo, and then again in 1979 during the Iranian revolution — are recalled in a new book, Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s. |
Beth Brown
Associate editor
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July 8, 2016 05:01 UTC
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Some of US cities supplied by the West Shore pipeline had to turn to unconventional supply sources this summer in order to meet area gasoline and diesel demand in the months since the indefinite closure of the Chicago-area refined products pipeline. |
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