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Growth in commodity derivatives set to slow
Category: Commodity News/Commodity News
... as some second-tier houses, independent dealers (Cargill, Koch) and energy firms (BP, Shell, Centrica). Consolidation has lessened competition in some areas and enabled surviving players to lift margins ...
Wednesday, 01 September 2010 -
They Died Before the Oil Ran Out
Category: Commodity Reports/Power & Energy Commodity Reports
... Shell Oil Company in 1964. He took a job with the U.S. Geological Survey and continued his speculative research--until he was thrust into national prominence by the oil crisis of the 1970s. Simmons, ...
Wednesday, 18 August 2010 -
CFTC's Sommers: position limit deadline poses risk
Category: Commodity News/Commodity Portfolio Management News
... from companies that trade the markets for profit. Banks like Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank said the plan would limit the utility of U.S. futures markets, and energy companies like Royal Dutch Shell ...
Monday, 16 August 2010 -
New LNG trading players to challenge old guard
Category: Commodity News/Power & Energy Commodity News
... If successful, these new entrants could bring transparency and efficiency to a previously closed market. But they will have to loosen the tight grip that the likes of BP , BG Group , Royal Dutch Shell ...
Friday, 13 August 2010 -
Nigeria oil reforms to pass soon, bid round to follow
Category: Commodity Reports/Power & Energy Commodity Reports
... last two weeks. We are still looking at fiscal deepwater terms and there could be some tweaking," she said. Royal Dutch Shell's Nigeria boss told Reuters last month the firm had some $40 billion worth ...
Monday, 02 August 2010 -
Wood Mackenzie Assesses Future Global Upstream Value at US$2.6 trillion
Category: Commodity Reports/Power & Energy Commodity Reports
... America, low margin oil in Iraq or Abu Dhabi, or sour gas in remote parts of the Far East.” The report attributes one-third of total value to the five largest international companies - Shell, ExxonMobil, ...
Monday, 12 July 2010 -
Thick oil soils Mississippi shore, storm looms
Category: Commodity News/Power & Energy Commodity News
... from Louisiana to Florida from the spill. Shell Oil Co evacuated nonessential workers from production platforms and drilling rigs in U.S.-regulated areas of the Gulf oil fields on Saturday, anticipating ...
Monday, 28 June 2010 -
Shrunken BP will avoid bankruptcy
Category: Commodity News/Power & Energy Commodity News
... and production (E&P), according to the company's financial statements. While BP is hobbled by compensation payments and its management is distracted, rivals such as Exxon and Shell will be better placed ...
Monday, 28 June 2010 -
U.S. operators exposure to drilling ban varies
Category: Commodity News/Power & Energy Commodity News
... industry. But its effect is highly uneven, with BP , Shell and Anadarko worst affected operators because of the number and depth of their wells in the area. Other firms with mostly shallow-water exposure ...
Wednesday, 23 June 2010 -
BP's crisis is no Three Mile Island
Category: Commodity News/Commodity News
... wider industry, the effect on BP itself could be far more severe. Since the problems with Exxon Valdez (1989) and Brent Spar (1995), BP's rivals Exxon and Shell have largely avoided major accidents. Both ...
Monday, 14 June 2010 -
The Offshore Paradox
Category: Commodity News/Power & Energy Commodity News
... be worse for Shell, which is now trying to win final approval to begin drilling in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska. The company says that it can explore safely, emphasizing that its "shallow water" sites are ...
Friday, 04 June 2010 -
Africa's oil spills are far from US media glare
Category: Commodity News/Power & Energy Commodity News
... Shell has clashed with the Nigerian government for decades following numerous spills in Africa's largest energy producer. Shell said in a statement on its website that its Nigerian joint venture cleans ...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010 -
Greenland proceeds with offshore drilling plans
Category: Commodity News/Power & Energy Commodity News
... auctions. Exxon Mobil and Chevron also hold existing leases, while Royal Dutch Shell and Norway’s Statoil were among the bidders in this week’s auctions. The U.S. Geological Survey has estimated that ...
Monday, 10 May 2010 -
Siemens presents subsea power grid
Category: Commodity Reports/Power & Energy Commodity Reports
... project. Together with Shell/NAM Siemens developed the STC-ECO compressor, suitable for seabed deployment and dirty gas applications. Since 1998, Siemens transformers have been in operation at a depth ...
Tuesday, 04 May 2010 -
Cape Wind Gets off the Ground
Category: Commodity News/Power & Energy Commodity News
... while fish and shellfish beds would be displaced. It also said that the national historic properties located near Horseshoe Shoal where the 24-square-mile project would be based, would have their seascape ...
Monday, 03 May 2010 -
U.S. pressures BP over Gulf oil spill; no easy fix
Category: Commodity News/Power & Energy Commodity News
... a seafood industry that is second only to Alaska within the United States. In 2008, commercial fishermen harvested more than 1 billion pounds of fish and shellfish in the Gulf of Mexico, out of total U.S. ...
Monday, 03 May 2010 -
China bags oil sands stake; not finished yet
Category: Commodity News/Commodity News
... the heels of PetroChina and Royal Dutch Shell launching a $3.1 billion takeover bid for another Australian gas producer, Arrow Energy . Head of Steam Iron ore, a key input for steelmaking, is another ...
Wednesday, 14 April 2010 -
Obama Opens Offshore Drilling in Climate Drive - Report
Category: Commodity Reports/Power & Energy Commodity Reports
... Bristol Bay will be canceled out of concern for protecting sensitive areas of the Outer Continental Shelf from environmental dangers. This could affect companies like Royal Dutch Shell , which has expressed ...
Friday, 02 April 2010 -
China in "great leap forward" for gas
Category: Commodity News/Power & Energy Commodity News
... These will surge even further in coming years, after firms like Qatargas, Shell , BP and Exxon Mobil sealed supply pacts with Chinese firms worth over $100 billion. Piped gas from Turkmenistan and Myanmar ...
Thursday, 18 March 2010 -
Cost pressures set to bounce back in mining, oil
Category: Commodity News/Commodity News
... to $3.8 billion. Last month, Chevron said the cost of the 100,000-barrel-per-day expansion Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP), a joint venture with Royal Dutch Shell Plc, had climbed to $14.3 billion from ...
Thursday, 18 March 2010