The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission says Texas may squeeze its electric generation reserve margins as temperatures rise this summer.  More »

By Dan Murtaugh Bloomberg News U.S. oil exports are poised to reach the highest level in 28 years as deliveries to Canada more than triple, helping bring down the price of the global benchmark Brent crude relative to U.S. grades. The shipments will rise to at least 200,000 barrels a day by the end of [...]  More »

There has been an acronymtastic set of reports this week from the IEA, IMF, and EIA. So from these nine letters come six charts out of three reports. Alphabetti spaghetti indeed.  First up is the IMF’s World Economic Outlook, which highlights a couple of key trends through some simple graphics. This first one is economic growth [...]  More »

The Department of Energy has overseen an energy sector in the US which has stood solidly on an import footing. The US is now grappling, I believe, not with whether to export more gas but with how much more gas to export.  More »

Assumptions on such as the growth of labor, the amount of capital invested and availability of tax credits could shape supply and demand for different forms of energy decades down the road.  More »

The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects the retail price for regular gasoline will average $3.63 per gallon during this summer’s driving season, slightly below average prices over the last two summers.  More »

Since 2008, foreign companies have invested more than $26 billion in tight oil and shale gas plays in the U.S. That’s according to an analysis published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration this week.  More »

It’s a frequently repeated factoid about the energy industry: No new major refinery has been built in this country in decades. But several small refineries have opened and significant capacity has been added at the nation’s refineries.  More »

Spot gasoline in New York Harbor strengthened against futures after the Energy Information Administration reported the largest drop in East Coast stockpiles of the fuel since November.  More »

New natural gas pipeline construction sagged in 2012, with the nation adding its lowest total of new pipeline mileage since 1997, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.  More »

The Energy Information Administration forecasts that OPEC will cut its crude production this year by 600,000 barrels per day, signaling an increase in world surplus production capacity.  More »

Amid a noisy debate over shipping U.S. natural gas to Europe and Asia, exports to Mexico climbed 24 percent in 2012.  More »