Stuart Elliott
Senior Writer 
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February 20, 2020 10:22 UTC 
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Natural gas – once praised as the key to an achievable energy transition in Europe – is increasingly falling out of favor. EU policymakers have spent years extolling the virtues of gas, calling it the cleanest of the fossil fuels and a bridge to a lower-carbon future. |
Brian Scheid
Senior editor, oil news 
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February 18, 2020 13:31 UTC
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US efforts to starve Venezuela’s Maduro regime of oil revenues have substantially increased the role of Russian energy in the US Gulf Coast, an outcome the Trump administration likely never anticipated when it put sanctions in place over a year ago. The situation has created a significant shift in product flows into Gulf Coast refineries and appears to have complicated the Trump administration’s plans to increase pressure on Venezuela, including plans to sanction Russian state oil Rosneft, which have remained on hold for months. |
S&P Global Platts
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February 17, 2020 12:50 UTC
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The ongoing outbreak of coronavirus, known officially as COVID-19, continues to dominate commodity and energy market developments, as illustrated by this week’s pick of charts from S&P Global Platts news editors. Plus, key trends in EU and US electricity markets. |
Pat Harrington
Associate Editor, Oil Markets
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February 14, 2020 15:29 UTC
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Many analysts have forecast that strong US Gulf Coast demand will help boost rail shipments of Canadian crude oil to records this year. But recent pricing dynamics and new regulations following the second derailment of a Canadian crude train in two months highlight the risks facing the most optimistic projections. |
John-Laurent Tronche
Market Engagement Manager, Europe & Africa
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February 13, 2020 12:31 UTC
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Unrestricted US crude oil exports recently entered their fifth year. Each year so far has brought with it new records, milestones and developments as American oil continues to muscle its way into new markets and in greater volumes. |
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S&P Global Platts Editors
Oil pricing
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February 12, 2020 14:21 UTC
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The export market has been a boon for US crude oil in early 2020, with the world, and especially Asia, looking to quench their thirst for light sweet grades. US outflows have been strong, with cFlow, S&P Global Platts’ trade flow software, estimating exports at 3.245 million b/d through the first five weeks of the year, despite worries of developing headwinds in the market. |
Paola Luporini and Jonathan Dart
S&P Global Platts Analytics and News 
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February 11, 2020 09:06 UTC
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The commodity complex has been on the slide on concerns about oil demand destruction caused the coronavirus outbreak in China, but sugar has bucked the trend. |
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S&P Global Platts
News editors
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February 10, 2020 10:34 UTC
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Global gas price convergence tops this week’s pick of energy and commodities charts to watch. Plus: US LNG exports, coronavirus impact on Asian crude oil and bunker fuel trade, emerging European power market dynamics, and global steel price trends. |
J Robinson
Senior Writer
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February 5, 2020 11:51 UTC
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In the first of a new series, S&P Global Platts editors weigh in on Brazil’s liberalizing gas market, taking in opportunities and risks for third-party pipeline imports from Bolivia, private LNG imports from the global market, and the growth of domestic competition in both the offshore and onshore markets. Last summer, Brazil began opening its natural gas trade to competition through historic market reforms. But recent challenges are raising doubts about the pace and certainty of liberalization. |
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S&P Global Platts
News editors
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February 3, 2020 10:05 UTC
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The spread of coronavirus outside China and the WHO’s escalation of the outbreak to emergency status last week continue to stoke fears over weaker energy demand and disruption to key mineral resource supply chains. In this special edition of Commodity Tracker, S&P Global Platts editors take a look at the impact across a number of energy products and raw materials. |
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