Propane inventories back on track

October 14, 2024 By Mark Rachal

Mark Rachal explores the recent moves in propane inventories.

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Chart 1: Crude and propane closing prices

Propane price movement driven by export terminal maintenance

October 7, 2024 By Mark Rachal

Mark Rachal describes the events behind the recent change in propane prices.

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Chart 1: Mont Belvieu - ETR - Sept 2024 through August 2027 (Chart: Cost Management Solutions)

How to minimize the unknowns when pricing propane

September 30, 2024 By Mark Rachal

In this Trader’s Corner, we will try and capture some things we know as propane buyers, some things we may not know now but could, thus reducing the number of unknowns to one.

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Imbalances between propane production, export capacity

September 23, 2024 By Mark Rachal

Export economics are wide open for U.S. propane.

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Chart 1: Crude and propane closing prices (Cost Management Solutions)

Propane prices head to the slopes

September 16, 2024 By Mark Rachal

For Mark Rachal of Cost Management Solutions, a recent slope in propane prices has been a joy to run for propane buyers.

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Chart 1: Belvieu propane percent of crude. (Cost Management Solutions)

Reconsider: Is it a good time to buy propane?

September 9, 2024 By Mark Rachal

Every propane retailer has asked someone or something at one point or another if it is a good time to buy propane.

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Chart 1: Mt Belvieu - ETR, current. Cost Management Solutions

Expanding your price protection window

September 3, 2024 By Mark Rachal

It would be wise for propane buyers to expand the time frame in which they obtain price protection beyond one year.

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Major impacts averted in Canadian railway labor dispute

August 28, 2024 By Brian Richesson

Compared to the same time period last summer, rail-car volumes from Canada were about 50 percent lower immediately after the lockout ended, NPGA says.