Scott D. Ellis
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Diesel Stocks Are Expected to Fall Below 100 Million Barrels. Check Your Fuel Clauses (opens the original)
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Record nominal pump prices and a shrinking inventory cushion are colliding with fuel contracts that were priced for a calmer market. The EIA now expects distillate inventories, diesel and heating oil, to drop below 100 million barrels this month and stay below the five-year low through most of 2027. That’s not a normal seasonal dip. Stocks fell below the five-year range back in April, and by the week ending August 28, they sat at 104.2 million barrels, 14 percent under the five-year average for
Texas Escalates Data Center Oversight with Attorney General Water-Use Investigation (opens the original)
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On September 24, the Texas Attorney General’s office announced an investigation into hundreds of data center developments across the state, targeting facilities that have not responded to a water use survey administered by the Texas Water Development Board. The investigation spans 18 counties, including Harris, Travis, Dallas, Tarrant, and El Paso, and follows a series of other state actions on the same underlying issue during the preceding seven weeks. None of this is happening in isolation. It
Battery Storage Grew 70 Percent a Year. The Contracts Haven't Caught Up. (opens the original)
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The U.S. power system ended 2025 with 43.6 gigawatts of utility-scale battery storage online. In just the first six months of 2026, operators added another 8.3 gigawatts, pushing total capacity to nearly 52 gigawatts. Over the prior three years, EIA data shows an annual average growth rate of 70 percent. Few segments of the energy industry are growing this fast, and few are being built on contract templates this unsettled. That gap between deployment speed and legal infrastructure is where the r
Less Money, More Oil: What EY's Latest Numbers Actually Show (opens the original)
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Capital expenditures across the largest U.S. oil and gas producers fell 49 percent year over year even as production hit a study-period high. That’s the central finding of EY’s annual US Oil and Gas Reserves and Production Benchmarking Study, released September 9 and based on five years of data from the 30 largest publicly traded exploration and production companies, a group representing about 43 percent of total U.S. oil and gas production. The two numbers don’t usually move in opposite directi
The Reliability Premium: What's Driving Energy M&A in 2026 (opens the original)
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Energy, utilities, and resources M&A produced an unusual result in 2025. According to PwC, overall deal value increased 27 percent even as the number of transactions declined 2 percent. PwC also identified 20 transactions valued at more than $5 billion, compared with just six in 2024. Fewer deals were completed, but the dollars committed to the largest transactions increased dramatically. That divergence points to a broader trend emerging across the sector: investors are increasingly willing to
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