The oil-natural gas conundrum
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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The U.S. oil and natural gas industry is at a crossroads. As oil demand appears poised to plateau, natural gas demand is in a period of tremendous growth. The rub? Most U.S. natural gas is extracted as a byproduct of oil drilling. Can there be one without the other? Also in this episode: The Trump administration considers slapping tracking devices on semiconductors, Yum! Brands reports a spending slowdown, and new data shows a nearly frozen services sector.
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| 1:07.6 | In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Risdonle. It is Tuesday, today, August the 5th. Good as always to have you along, everybody. |
| 1:15.2 | We are going to begin today with commodities, petroleum-based commodities in particular, of which the United States is the world's biggest producer, crude oil and natural gas, both. |
| 1:26.8 | The pair of them essential to this and to the global |
| 1:30.2 | economy. But their fortunes seem to be diverging, which I will highlight by quoting their prices |
| 1:36.1 | today, a barrel of both the U.S. and global benchmarks, West Texas and Brent crude, down about |
| 1:41.7 | 1.6 percent a day. Natural gas, on the other hand, denominated by the buy in millions of BTUs, |
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