CBA News and Press, ClearBridge American Energy MLP Fund Inc. From 08/03/22

The Permian’s abundant resources, favorable economics, established infrastructure, and relative proximity to end markets will result in continued volume growth. While some of the largest public Permian producers are only growing modestly, the integrated majors and private explo...

AMCC includes midstream companies based in the US and Canada that are taxed as corporations. AMZ and AMCC index-level data is useful for making generalizations about MLPs and corporations as a group. AMZ and AMCC also differ in their subsector exposure, with the MLP index providin...

OPEC+ sticks to its planned oil output hike of 648,000 bpd in August and averted discussing its production plans for September even as oil prices soared due to tight global supplies. Williams reached a final investment decision on its clean energy project, the Louisiana Energy Gateway...

Steady cash flows and a meaningful reduction in growth capital spending plans should support strong free cash flow (FCF) generation from midstream companies for years to come. Midstream’s abundance of FCF has supported debt reduction, a proliferation of buyback programs, and wi...

The energy market is a tug-of-war between fundamentals in the energy industry which is pretty tight. The energy sector has been driving a lot of performance in the S&P/TSX Index since the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. In the short term, I do expect the integrated compan...

Despite volatile equity trading, the fundamentals for many energy companies have not changed. This is particularly true for energy infrastructure. Oil’s move from ~$120/bbl a month ago to $96/bbl at the intra-day low last week has not altered producer plans, and the outlook for...

The outlook for MLP distributions remains strong given solid fundamentals, continued free cash flow generation, and commodity price levels that incentivize measured growth from US oil and gas producers. Little has fundamentally changed for MLPs over the last month, but MLP index yield...

The combination of mounting recession fears and some profit-taking put significant downward pressure on energy stocks even as oil prices were comparatively resilient. If there is a recession, energy stocks will likely fall, but midstream would be expected to fare better than other ene...

The strength in LNG markets has spurred a resurgence in long-term offtake agreements, which are key to advancing LNG export projects towards Final Investment Decision (FID). The strong macro environment for LNG and improved outlook for projects has translated into strong equity perfor...

The length of midstream contracts can vary from a few years to 20+ years, but importantly, contracts help support stable cash flows used to pay the attractive dividends offered by many energy infrastructure companies. Contract tenures vary by company and asset type. At the longer end ...