Criminals used to evade US energy sanctions. Now, longtime US allies and trading partners likely will, Richard Nephew, a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, tells the Platts Capitol Crude podcast. In Part 2 of our interview with Nephew, he...

On today's S&P Global Platts Capitol Crude, we're talking about the impact of Iran sanctions on oil prices and future global supply. Richard Nephew, a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, talks about how Iran may mitigate the price...

The US is on the verge of becoming a net oil exporter, a market shift unthinkable just a few years ago. On this week's Capitol Crude, John Auers, an executive vice president at Turner, Mason & Company and a refining sector expert, talks about the changing path towards US energy independence and...

The US Energy Information Administration expects Venezuelan oil production to sink below 1 million b/d by the end of this year and fall to 700,000 b/d by the end of 2019. EIA analyst Lejla Villar, who developed those forecasts, joins Capitol Crude to talk about the staggering collapse of...

The clock is ticking down on the return of US sanctions against Iranian oil customers, but the messages coming out of Washington still seem to be in flux. Will all countries have to cut their imports to zero if they want to continue to have access to the US financial system? Or will some waivers be...

Will US President Donald Trump agree to weaken or lift sanctions during an historic summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin? Only Trump likely knows. On this week's Capitol Crude, Daniel Fried and Bill Richardson discuss the likelihood of sanctions negotiations at the upcoming summit....

On this week’s S&P Global Platts Capitol Crude podcast we look at why there’s a growing price differential between WTI and WTI. Refiner concerns over blending and perceptions over crude quality have led to changes in specifications for WTI. John-Laurent Tronche, managing editor,...

A major US driller delivered a message to OPEC last week in Vienna, urging the oil ministers to increase production to prevent a price spike that would damage both groups and trigger yet another boom-and-bust cycle. Scott Sheffield, chairman of Pioneer Natural Resources, said the conditions are set...

Ahead of this week's OPEC meeting, we talk to the last US official to attend an OPEC meeting. Kent Hance, a member of the Railroad Commission of Texas and a former US congressman, attended an OPEC meeting in Vienna 30 years ago. He thinks Trump administration officials should look to working with...

What will impact the global oil market more: the collapse of Venezuela's oil sector or the US exit from the Iran nuclear deal?On this week's Capitol Crude, Meghan Gordon and Brian Scheid talk with Amy Myers Jaffe, director of the Council on Foreign Relations' energy security and...