With control of Congress at stake in next month's US midterm elections, we look at the three possible scenarios and oil policy consequences after all the votes have been counted. Kevin Book, managing director with ClearView Energy Partners, walks through what happens to everything from Russia...

With oil prices on the rise, the Trump administration is ramping up criticism of OPEC, with US President Trump pressing Saudi Arabia to do much more to push oil prices down and the State Department telling S&P Global Platts that it wants OPEC and other producers to start developing spare...

On today's Capitol Crude we look at the ongoing trade war between the US and China and whether US crude oil exports could be subject to retaliatory tariffs. Frank Verrastro with the Center for Strategic and International Studies discusses why Chinese oil demand and looming Iranian sanctions...

In just over a month, California voters will decide whether to repeal a recent 12 cents/gallon gasoline tax increase and prevent state lawmakers from increasing gas taxes in the future. The potential change could have a major impact on California's 43 millions gal/d gasoline market. Sam Ori,...

On this week's Platts Capitol Crude we look at a plan by Congress to lease unused space in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to private companies and foreign governments. We talk to Congressman Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and...

President Donald Trump recently signed into law expanded powers for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The inter-agency group led by the Treasury secretary reviews outside investment in US companies for potential national security threats. Refineries, upstream oil and gas...

Out with NAFTA, in with the US/Mexico trade deal. The agreement reached last week between Washington and Mexico City appears to include a provision the US oil and gas industry saw as critical to protecting investments in the newly opened Mexican upstream. Joshua Zive, a lawyer and trade expert at...

US Senator Tina Smith, Democrat-Minnesota, joins Capitol Crude to share how President Donald Trump's biofuel policies and trade wars are playing in the Midwest ahead of the November midterm elections. In Iowa this summer, Trump said he would approve year-round E15 sales "very...

US lawmakers in both chambers of Congress have proposed a raft of new sanctions to counter Russian interference in US elections and alleged use of banned weapons. Most of the bills target energy trade or investment, whether it's Russian joint ventures with western oil companies or the Nord Stream 2...

Colorado voters will decide in November whether to expand land setbacks for oil and gas wells. We spoke with Dan Eberhart, CEO of Denver-based oilfield services company Canary, about how the proposed rule could limit the state's production potential. Eberhart, whose company manufactures...