Kate Zhou
Editor, Metallurgical Coal 
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November 22, 2018 11:30 UTC 
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China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has imposed further port restrictions on both metallurgical and thermal coal, effective from 14th November. There was no official announcement, but traders and steel mills have told Platts the NDRC verbally informed the General Administration of Customs that any imported coal would no longer be able to clear customs until the end of 2018. |
Katherine Dunn
Associate Editor, LPG 
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November 22, 2018 06:30 UTC
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In the second part of this double feature, Katherine Dunn investigates an emerging security risk for the shipping industry, as maritime authorities report a rising number of GPS failures Interrupting GPS— even the GPS of a large vessel — requires just three simple steps. |
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Katherine Dunn
Associate Editor, LPG
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November 21, 2018 06:30 UTC
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In the first part of this double feature, Katherine Dunn investigates an emerging security risk for the shipping industry, as maritime authorities report a rising number of GPS failures Early one Sunday in mid-March, a ship in Port Said, the northern gateway to Egypt’s Suez Canal, suddenly and inexplicably lost all connection to GPS on board. |
Mary Hogan, Laura Huchzermeyer and John-Laurent Tronche
Editors, Americas crude oil markets 
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November 20, 2018 12:00 UTC
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CME Group and Intercontinental Exchange are several weeks into the debuts of their basis-Houston West Texas Intermediate futures contracts, but the latter this week became the first to face the test of an expiry day and contract roll to a new front-month trading cycle. The December 2018 contract for ICE Permian WTI Futures expired Monday, and the front month became January on Tuesday, which is in line with the typical US Gulf Coast pipeline trading schedule. The contract itself launched October 22. |
Nick Coleman
Senior editor
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November 19, 2018 04:30 UTC
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Oil and gas majors have brushed themselves off after the industrywide downturn and are back on their feet trying to mimic the success of smaller companies in US shale. But many doubters still question whether Big Oil is up to the task after failing at earlier attempts in such plays. The setbacks to global majors’ shale efforts earlier in the decade were well-publicized. Several invested heavily in shale gas before prices collapsed, as more nimble rivals charged into liquids-rich plays. |
Tyler Godwin
Associate editor 
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November 16, 2018 16:03 UTC
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After being at a six-year high in July, the spread between Central Appalachia (CAPP) thermal coal and thermal coal delivered into Northern Europe fell to its lowest level in nearly four years Wednesday. CIF ARA 6,000 kcal/kg coal, for delivery in the next 15 to 60 days to Amsterdam, Rotterdam or Antwerp, was assessed Wednesday by S&P Global Platts at a six-month low of $85.95/mt, while rail-delivered (CSX) CAPP coal for December delivery was assessed at $77.75/st. |
Kate Winston and Maya Weber
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November 15, 2018 09:00 UTC
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From ballot measures to statehouses, what do the results of the US midterm elections mean for oil, gas and power markets? Kate Winston and Maya Weber report On November 6, US voters shied away from key statewide environmental initiatives that would have imposed near-term costs on oil, gas and traditional utility interests. But they backed candidates, including nine new Democratic governors, with aggressive renewable energy and environmental goals. Advocates may now look to states fully under Democratic control – such as Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado – to take quick action on clean energy, since divided government at the federal level lowers prospects for this in Washington. |
Mary Hogan
Associate editor, Americas crude
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November 13, 2018 09:00 UTC
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Louisiana’s crude imports in the third quarter of 2018 fell 15.616 million barrels year on year despite higher regional refinery runs for the same period amid a wider year-on-year Brent/WTI swap spread. Louisiana refineries and buyers brought in 62.389 million barrels of crude in Q3 2018, according to data from US Customs and Border Protection and S&P Global Platts Analytics. |
Laura Huchzermeyer
Associate editor
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November 12, 2018 07:15 UTC
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Oil produced in North Dakota’s Williston Basin is the latest North American crude grade to experience plummeting values because of what many in the industry say is rising output and tightening pipeline takeaway capacity combined with regional refinery maintenance. Bakken crude values began experiencing a rather sharp decline at the start of October when a combination of factors began to weigh on values. |
Meghan Gordon
Senior writer, oil
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November 12, 2018 06:30 UTC
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US energy abundance underpinned the Trump administration’s case for rolling back federal vehicle fuel economy standards, a policy the government aims to adopt by March. The US is producing enough oil “to satisfy nearly all of its energy needs and is projected to continue to do so,” the administration argued in the proposal that would freeze fuel efficiency for cars and light trucks at the 2020 target of 43.7 miles per gallon. Booming domestic output has “added new stable supply to the global oil market and reduced the urgency of the US to conserve energy,” it said. |
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