The Domino Effect

The Domino Effect
The shale revolution triggered The Domino Effect, a cascading series of events that has profoundly transformed energy markets, reshaped major related industries and remodeled the global economic and geopolitical landscape. This book presents a unique, integrated perspective on natural gas, crude oil and natural gas liquids that is vital to understanding energy prices, product flows, infrastructure, equity values and the global energy economy.

Innovative analysis provides energy producers, marketers, end users, financiers, and investors with a framework for understanding the tectonic shift in global supply and demand that will continue to drive energy markets for decades to come. The Domino Effect also delivers high-level insights into exploiting the extraordinary investment, trade and career opportunities that will continue to be opened by the shale revolution.
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"This book lays out how energy markets work in the real world. Braziel has lived these markets, and has successfully stitched together what has happened over the past five years to oil and gas production, infrastructure and prices. Then using the Domino Effect concept, he lays out what is likely to happen next. This is a must-read for anyone involved in energy markets."
Harold Hamm, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Continental Resources

"Braziel has been dead right about energy markets. If you were paying attention to Rusty, nothing about today's oil and gas prices would be a shock, or even much of a surprise. It all follows a completely rational, even predictable blueprint. In The Domino Effect, he explains how that works and why. In today's markets, you've got to understand energy. This book lays it all out in a framework that makes basic, common sense, whether you are from the oil patch or Wall Street."
James Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money and a co-founder of TheStreet, Inc.

"Rusty has applied his rigorous approach to market analysis to the newly developed unconventional shale boom in North America. His keen insights into the seemingly benign differences between conventional and unconventional developments highlight the significant and extraordinary factors that must be taken into consideration when evaluating market fundamentals."
J. Mike Stice, Dean, College of Earth and Energy, University of Oklahoma; Access Midstream Partners
CEO (retired)

"Finally we have a book that explains what is going on in today's energy markets. Since the onset of the shale era, energy markets have experienced tumultuous change and volatility. All this disruption may have seemed random, but in reality the changes have followed a discernable pattern of supply growth, infrastructure development and price impact. In the Domino Effect, Braziel lays this pattern bare for all to see.If you want to understand energy markets, this book is required reading."
Michael N. Mears, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Magellan Midstream Partners

"This book is about understanding energy markets: prices, flows, infrastructure, value, and economics. It is a critical examination of the responses of those markets since the advent of the shale revolution, a framework for understanding what happens next, and an explanation of how shale will continue to drive the energy industry in the coming decades in the United States and throughout the world."
-Rusty Braziel

E. Russell ("Rusty") Braziel is one of the most respected authorities in the field of energy information and markets. With an extensive trading and analytics background in the markets for natural gas, natural gas liquids and crude oil, he is uniquely qualified to interpret the economic, commercial and pricing consequences of the shale revolution.

Rusty is president and CEO of RBN Energy, a leading energy consultancy providing analysis and advisory services, best known for its rock-music themed Daily Energy Post, a blog that goes deep into the details about energy market trends, the mechanics of how energy markets function, and the workings of economic and operational energy models.

The musical theme of RBN's daily blog harkens back to Braziel's previous career in the music industry. From the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s he played bass, guitar and pedal steel in a number of rock and country groups in East Texas, Tulsa and Los Angeles.

Rusty spent 20 years with Texaco (now Chevron), serving as Vice President of Natural Gas Marketing and Trading and Manager of NGL Supply. Subsequently he was Vice President of Business Development for The Williams Companies, President of Altra Energy Technologies and co-owner of Bentek Energy. Mr. Braziel holds BBA and MBA degrees in business and finance from Stephen F. Austin University. In 2014 he was named Stephen F. Austin Distinguished Alumni.