Is a new plan by Congress to sell 64 million barrels of crude from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve like a get-rich-quick scheme that's just too good to be true? Platts senior editors Brian Scheid and Herman Wang look at whether this plan could lead to an actual profit or just a convenient way to...

Summer is starting, and while Platts senior editors Brian Scheid and Herman Wang start thinking of sunscreen and sunglasses, Shell is planning to drill offshore Alaska. The plan has received conditional approval from the Obama administration, but it's drawn fierce opposition from environmental...

Senator Lisa Murkowski is the featured guest on this week's Capitol Crude, as Platts senior editors Brian Scheid and Herman Wang interview the Alaska Republican and chairwoman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee about her efforts to lift the US' longstanding restrictions on crude...

Venezuela was once the largest source of US oil imports, but when that relationship soured, the Latin American powerhouse turned to a new relationship with China. But as Platts senior editors Brian Scheid and Herman Wang explain, that partnership is not quite what was expected. Matt Ferchen,...

You've got questions? Capitol Crude has answers. Platts senior editors Brian Scheid and Herman Wang dip into their mailbag and answer some burning questions about crude oil policy. What can we expect at the upcoming June 5 OPEC meeting in Vienna? How will a bill recently passed by the US Senate...

There's no sure way to tell when the drop is coming, but take a ride with Platts senior oil editors Herman Wang and Brian Scheid on the Peak Oil Peaker, a virtual roller coaster built entirely on oil market speculation. When will low prices and falling rig counts cause US production — and...

Forecasting oil prices is a tough game, and Platts senior editors Brian Scheid and Herman Wang ask whether there's any value to long-term oil price forecasts or if there's too big of a chance of a fumble. The US Energy Information Administration recently projected crude oil prices to be between...

Platts senior editors Brian Scheid and Herman Wang are joined by John Kingston, president of the McGraw Hill Financial Institute, for a pretty ... pretty ... pretty interesting discussion of US crude policy. Drawing on their favorite moments from the HBO hit 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' the three draw...

Pull up a chair in the interrogation room and join Platts senior editor Brian Scheid as he asks questions about the Obama administration's new hydraulic fracturing rules and their impact on US oil and gas producers. Blasted by industry as overkill and environmentalists as ineffective, these...