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The US Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration retained Stillwater Associates to assist in the development of an ethanol reporting program. The objective of the program is to gather production, stocks and movement data so the flow of the market is accurately represented. Stillwater's main task was to provide an analysis of the ethanol supply chain, ethanol intransit accounting and the related petroleum products intransit stock accounting.
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California Strategic Fuel Reserve Study
The California Energy Commission engaged Stillwater Associates to study the issues around a Strategic Fuel Reserve to reduce the impact of unplanned supply shortfalls on consumers and businesses. This study includes an analysis of the barriers to supply into the California market.
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Clients like airlines, trucking companies, shipping companies, railroads, and other large consumers of fuel turn to Stillwater Associates for guidance on the likely direction of fuel prices in the future. This guidance is in the form of a briefing that explains the factors that drive price forecasts - supply, demand, inventories, transportation, and governmental regulation. This briefing also includes an overview of the refining and marketing scene.
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Stillwater Associates to provides expert testimony and litigation support to law firms on energy supply and distribution issues.
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Assignment
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U.S. House of Representatives
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Congressional testimony on the impact of oil company mergers on the marketplace
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Kentucky State Attorney General
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Litigation support on price gouging
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Private Trucking Company
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Testimony and litigation support on interstate fuel transit
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Washington State Attorney General
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Litigation support on petroleum operations
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Pipeline Company
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Testimony on refinery operations
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Stillwater has participated in the economic analysis of several refining and distribution acquisitions.
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Renewable Energy Market Feasibility Studies
Clients in the renewable energy space rely on Stillwater Associates to study the potential for biofuels in the overall energy market. Stillwater has provided analysis for producers of sugar cane ethanol in California and Hawaii.
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Stillwater consults on a number of technology development projects including efforts to convert biomass to power and upgrading refinery residual products.
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UNOCAL Gasoline Patents
The Patent Office granted UNOCAL a series of patents for reformulated gasoline. Oil industry participants and the consuming public are feeling the impact of these patents. Stillwater Associates is an expert on the issues around the UNOCAL patents and has advised refiners and traders on how to think about the impact of the patents.
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