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What constitutes having gas? If you want to build a pipeline, this is obviously one of the most crucial questions to ask. But it's not usually asked in quite that form.

The point is that it is worth considering what constitutes availability. In theory, of course, there's lots of gas that can be made available for a pipeline, as the rival stories of efforts to develop the South Stream and Southern Corridor pipelines to Europe show.

Could last year's Deepwater Horizon disaster have been anticipated months in advance?

That's a central question being asked by the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, one of the several groups investigating last year's blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers.

The recent development in the US Atlantic Coast gasoline market to trade cargoes on an ex-duty basis, which excludes all import duties, has prompted Platts to propose launching several new ex-duty assessments.

The price of spot USAC gasoline cargoes traditionally has included import duties. But many non-US based companies are increasingly selling cargoes on an ex-duty basis in order to avoid the costs associated with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) requirements.