November 19, 2019/OilPrice.com Chart Of The Week – The Trump administration has dramatically increased the number of waivers given to small oil refiners, allowing them to get out of ethanol blending requirements. – The waivers resulted in a much larger portion of renewable fuel supply being exempted from federal mandates. […]
OPINION/EDITORIAL
Frontier Market Borrowing Binge
November 18, 2019/IMFBlog By IMFBlog Rock bottom global interest rates have been a boon for so-called frontier-market countries, which have been able to borrow cheaply to finance their development needs. But there can be too much of a good thing: countries that don’t put the money to good use may […]
Why Isn’t Winter Pushing LNG Prices Higher?
November 15, 2019/OilPrice.com Spot LNG prices in Asia-Pacific are hovering around the $6/MMBtu level at a time when seasonal winter demand usually pushes them higher. The reason is not hard to see – excess liquefaction capacity coming on-stream in the US, compounding the build-up of capacity in recent years in […]

