Going Green: Oil & Gas Dips its Toes Into Renewables
Renewables are continuing to gain traction globally as power providers and policymakers prioritize low-carbon energy in order to combat climate change. Some traditional oil and gas companies are...
What about MLPs’ Refiner Customers?
With so much focus on the financial health of midstream’s customers that produce oil, it is easy to forget that many MLPs have significant exposure to refiners – and not just those MLPs with refiner...
Look Down(stream): What Midstream Can Learn from Refiners about Free Cash Flow and More
Alerian examines the strategic parallels between refining and midstream and discusses what energy infrastructure companies can learn from their downstream peers in regard to free cash flow and...
Crude Spreads Here, There, and Everywhere – What it Means for Midstream
With widened crude spreads across North America, it’s easy to make a case for the need for more pipeline infrastructure. But if crude spreads narrow in places like the Permian as pipelines start up,...
Midstream 3Q18 Preview: Key Topics for Earnings Calls
With energy and midstream earnings season around the corner, we look at key themes that will likely be topics of interest on 3Q18 calls for the midstream space.
MLP Structural Simplifications: Part 2 – IDR Eliminations
In recent years, we’ve seen MLPs move to eliminate IDRs, as several management teams have acknowledged that IDR structures become unsustainable over time. In today’s post, we look at how IDR...