Will US coal be left out in the cold this winter?
The cold winter had many in the US coal industry hoping for sustained demand increases and higher prices. But as Andrew Moore, managing editor of Platts Coal Trader, explains, prices for Powder River ...
21 Aug 20145min
Japan power peak season and LNG demand analysis
Japan is facing the summer power demand peak season without nuclear power for the first time. Stephanie Wilson, Platts managing editor for Asia LNG, and Eriko Amaha, Platts associate editor for Asia L...
18 Aug 20144min
Turkey targets 50% power generating capacity hike by 2023
Platts Darren Stetzel, power markets editor, discusses the evolving Turkish power generation mix as official energy ministry forecasts predict the need for 100 GW of installed generating capacity in T...
11 Aug 20148min
Trading appears carefree in US natural gas markets
Natural gas futures and spot traders have little reason to be bullish as colder-than-normal temperatures blanket natural gas burning markets, with one exception: California. Production is still increa...
4 Aug 20146min
Oil companies increase US acreage swaps, seeking efficiency
Oil companies are swapping acreage in the US to become more efficient and better plan drilling and midstream infrastructure. Starr Spencer, Platts senior editor, oil news, discusses which companies ha...
1 Aug 20146min
Bulls flee N. American gas market as temperatures moderate
The bulls are fleeing the North American natural gas market as hopes for a hotter-than-normal summer have disappeared. That leaves the bears in charge with moderate August weather in the forecasts and...
21 Jul 20145min
Prices pressured upward for US ethylene, downstream markets
US spot ethylene assessments rose to their highest levels in more than a year earlier in the week, and the tightness in the polyethylene export market hearkens back to the aftermath of Hurricane Katri...
18 Jul 20146min
Polar vortex redux weighs on US gas markets
Platts North American natural gas editor Patrick Badgley explains how a mass of arctic air is expected to move across the US this week, and in many places natural gas prices are lower than last year. ...
17 Jul 20146min
