Published on Tuesday, June 26 2018
Authors: John Auers and Robert Auers

By John Auers and Robert Auers Mexico certainly has been in the news lately, what with the barrage of media attention on the “family separation” issue at the U.S. border and the early success of the Mexican futbol team (particularly their upset of favorite Germany).  Almost lost somewhat in this…

Published on Monday, June 18 2018
Authors: Robert Auers and John Auers

By Robert Auers and John Auers We last covered the issue of Permian takeaway capacity in November 2017 here.  At that time we predicted that Permian production wouldn’t hit 3.3 MMBPD until the end of 2018, and as a result, that we wouldn’t see significant pipeline capacity bottlenecks out of…

Published on Monday, June 11 2018
Authors: Robert Auers

By Robert Auers For today’s blog, we chose a song by everyone’s favorite Canadian – Justin Bieber.  By purchasing the existing Transmountain pipeline and the Transmountain expansion project last week from Kinder Morgan for C$4.5 Billion, the Canadian federal government is essentially saying that it will do everything in its…

Published on Tuesday, June 5 2018
Authors: John Auers and Brian Mason

By John Auers and Brian Mason There certainly has been a lot of big and (in some cases) very surprising developments in the petroleum industry over the past week.  While hints that the Saudi’s and Russians were preparing to increase production sent the oil markets in a “tizzy,” the big…