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March 25, 2021

by PLG Consulting in Featured Insights

Commentary: Narrow WCS-WTI Spread Pressures Tank Car Lease Rates

Commentary: Narrow Western Canada Select (WCS) and Western Texas Intermediate (WTI) spread pressures tank car lease rates It’s not profitable to ship crude oil by rail. The main driver of crude-by-rail shipments is the price difference between Canada’s benchmark Western Canada Select and Western Texas Intermediate, a U.S. benchmark. When the discount is wide, […]

March 8, 2021

by PLG Consulting in Featured Insights

Commentary: Lower LPG-by-rail volumes lead to lower leases

Commentary: Lower LPG-by-rail volumes lead to lower leases LPG-by-rail shipment data from the Department of Energy shows just how much propane and butane rail volumes fell through 2020. The decline has its roots in a shift of shipments from rail to pipeline as Energy Transfer Partners’ Mariner East 2 (ME2) natural gas liquids pipeline came […]

February 25, 2021

by PLG Consulting in Featured Insights

Commentary: Five-Year LPG Tank Car Lease Rates

Commentary: Five-year LPG Tank Car Lease Rates PLG Consultant, 30-year veteran business journalist and founder of an analytics firm that tracks tank car lease rates, Clifton Linton says: “Tank car leases trade like any other commodity. They have up and down cycles. As the nearby chart shows five-year LPG tank car lease prices are in […]

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Commentary: Narrow WCS-WTI Spread Pressures Tank Car Lease Rates

Commentary: Lower LPG-by-rail volumes lead to lower leases

Commentary: Five-Year LPG Tank Car Lease Rates

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