Tag: crude oil

Tortoise hits Bloomberg

Simplification across midstream sector won’t kill off MLPs There’s a race among pipeline owners to reduce capital costs First came Kinder Morgan Inc., then Targa Resources Corp. and now Oneok Inc. — pipeline giants keep buying up their master-limited partnerships, once darlings of the energy world. Their moves raise a question: Are MLPs — tax-advantaged, […]

Tortoise in Bloomberg

U.S. Oil Supply Growth at Record Pace Seen Pressuring Prices (Bloomberg) — An unprecedented glut of crude in the U.S. expanded last week, signaling further weakness for oil prices already near a six-year low. Stockpiles at Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for West Texas Intermediate futures traded in New York, rose 2.87 million barrels in […]