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EUROPE’S ENERGY CRISIS IS KEEPING ENERGY PRICES AND INFLATION HIGH

America leads the world in oil and gas production. We believe midstream energy infrastructure offers predictable cash flows to investors..

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Why Pipeline Construction Is Hard

December 6, 2023/0 Comments/in Midstream Energy Infrastructure SL Advisors Talks Markets/by Simon Lack

Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) will soon move 2 Billion Cubic Feet per Day (BCF) of natural gas from West Virginia to southern Virginia. It will allow increased takeaway capacity from the Marcellus and Utica shale plays in Appalachia. By connecting to Transco (owned by Williams Companies) it will allow for natgas to be transported south, […]

Bond Rally Boosts Pipelines

December 3, 2023/0 Comments/in Midstream Energy Infrastructure SL Advisors Talks Markets/by Simon Lack

Bonds had a great month in November. The Bloomberg Agg was +4.5%. Ten year yields dropped 50 bps. Indications that the Fed will pause again were extrapolated into easing expectations as soon as next quarter. Lower yields help the relative valuation of equities, although Factset earnings forecasts are no longer trending upwards. Consequently, the rally […]

Another Climate Conference

November 29, 2023/0 Comments/in Midstream Energy Infrastructure SL Advisors Talks Markets/by Simon Lack

COP28, the annual UN climate conference, starts tomorrow in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It’s easy to criticize the world’s efforts at reducing global Greenhouse Gases (GHGs). They over-emphasize intermittent solar and wind instead of going all in on nuclear and should replace coal with natural gas. China gets a free pass to […]

Natural Gas Liquids – The Forgotten Cousins

November 26, 2023/3 Comments/in Midstream Energy Infrastructure SL Advisors Talks Markets/by Simon Lack

Media coverage of reliable energy tends to focus on oil and gas. Oil comes in hundreds of different grades of complex hydrocarbon molecules. Natural gas, methane, is the simplest hydrocarbon of them all with a molecular formula of CH4. In between methane and crude oil lie Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs) – successively more complex combinations […]

AMLP Is Running Out Of Names

November 22, 2023/0 Comments/in Midstream Energy Infrastructure SL Advisors Talks Markets/by Simon Lack

Next month VettaFi, which owns the Alerian indices, will announce a rebalancing of the Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index (AMZI). This will impact the Alerian MLP ETF (AMLP) which tracks AMZI. For an index fund it does a poor job of keeping up with its index – ALPS Advisors, who runs it, reports alpha of –3.03% […]