If anyone knows the ins and outs of Ukraine’s oil and gas industry, it’s Olena Tregub. Tregub, originally from the Ukraine, has spent the past several years working in Washington, DC as an independent political analyst and expert on Ukrainian oil and gas. She has written on topics a
The US Energy Department recently announced its first test sale from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) since 1990, offering five million barrels. A department spokesman explained that the test sale is meant to assess the reserve’s capabilities in light of significant changes in t
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and US President Barack Obama aren’t quite seeing eye-to-eye on the expansion of the Keystone. Less than a week after Valentine’s Day, the Three Amigos – the collective nickname given to NAFTA bloc leaders Stephen Harper of Canada, Mexico’s
Some observers have suggested that, when it comes to aging infrastructure, the US oil and gas industry suffers from an “out of sight, out of mind” mentality. Critics point to old buried pipelines, some dating from the 1930s and earlier but still in service. Not only are those pipeli
Cast iron is a pretty durable material when it comes to, say, skillets. But for gas and oil pipelines? As it turns out, not so much. Cast and wrought iron were the metals of choice for pipelines constructed in the US prior to 1940. Even after steel pipelines came into vogue during t