Brian L. Milne is the energy editor and a product manager with DTN. Milne manages the refined fuel’s editorial content, spot price discovery activity, and cash market analysis for DTN’s energy segment. Milne and his team communicate with suppliers, brokers and fuel buyers in the bulk wholesale market in refined fuels throughout each business day. Milne has more than 20 years of experience in the energy industry as an analyst, journalist, and editor, serving as managing editor for Btu publications and journalist with Bridge Information Systems America before joining DTN in 1999. His industry and market focus include natural gas, NGLs, and electricity during its move to deregulated markets in the late 1990s, biofuels, and the downstream petroleum industry. Milne graduated Magna Cum Laude from Monmouth University in New Jersey with a Bachelor of Arts in history and an interdisciplinary in political science.
A new rule that sets a much lower global limit on sulfur content in marine fuel is on the horizon, leading to higher shipping costs that may ultimately force...
When tens of millions of Americans hit the road this holiday weekend, they're going to find the highest prices for gasoline in nearly seven years. But many will also find stations that don't have any gas at all.
There's no shortage of gasoline, but a few stations have still run dry because it's hard to find qualified truck drivers who can move the fuel around. The high demand is pushing driver pay up.
"We have plenty of gasoline, and refiners could produce a lot more if they needed to, but it just can't get there," Brian Milne to NPR
Marine fuel is a distillate, with the reduction in sulfur placing it in the category of ultralow sulfur diesel fuel, or ULSD.