Locator: 49770FOOTBALL.
Nothing to do but wait for the ball games! It took three attempts, but I finally got it:
And instead of searching the net, and getting a lot of useless information and a lot of ads, I simply go to Google Gemini and request: tell me everything I need to know about the Cotton Bowl later tonight. If I need / want more, I can simply ask the next question and so on and so on and get a news story tailored specifically for me.
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Back to the Bakken
WTI: $58.25.
New wells being reported the last day of the year:
- Wednesday, December 31, 2025: 72 for the month, 195 for the quarter, 769 for the year,
- None (there was no June 31, 2025)
RBN Energy: the top ten RBN blogs of 2025. Link here. Archived.
The Top 10 RBN Blogs of 2025 -- Based On "Hits" -- Summaries Generated By ChatGPT With Human Editing -- December 30, 2025
What it takes to get energy from Point A to Point B — from where it is produced to where it is consumed — was at the heart of many of RBN’s most popular blogs in 2025. Infrastructure bottlenecks, shifting logistics, evolving price signals, and the constant push-and-pull between supply and demand all shaped the markets, with each segment seemingly wanting to go its own way. But there was another layer too: the three T’s that hovered over everything this year: Trump, tariffs and turbulence. Together, they formed the backdrop for a market that kept everyone guessing about where things were headed. In today’s RBN blog, we discuss the Top 10 blogs of 2025.
Fortunately, in the RBN blogosphere, we have a great way to size up what’s coming next — the blogosphere itself. A huge advantage of publishing a daily blog on a single topic — and distributing it to tens of thousands — is that by tracking how many hits each post gets, we can spot emerging energy-market themes as they develop. And we share those insights with the RBN community. For more than a decade, we’ve wrapped up each year by reviewing which topics rose to the top of the hit parade in our year-end “Top 10” blog, distilling the common themes we learn from what amounts to crowd-sourced market intelligence. Today’s blog is the latest edition of that tradition.
Take the Long Way Home - Enbridge's Oil Pipeline Expansions Likely to Spur More Projects Downstream
Rising Western Canadian crude production and Enbridge’s push to add nearly 400 Mb/d of new Mainline and Express-Platte capacity set up a critical downstream question in 2025: How will all those incremental heavy barrels get from the Canadian border to the Gulf Coast? Building on the themes in #9 (The Race Is On), this blog showed why Canadian flows, export routes and midstream competition are key considerations for the oil markets and why they were among the year’s defining storylines — and that accommodating new north-to-south volumes will require a new generation of pipeline expansions. With another takeaway crunch looming over the next couple of years, Western Canadian crude flows will remain a major driver of midstream development.
