Power & Energy Commodity Reports
Genscape Completes Creation of World’s Largest Land & Sea Oil Supply Chain Monitoring Network
London, 22 May 2013
Genscape, the company that pioneered the placement of thousands of patented, in-the-field energy monitors to measure market fundamentals in real-time, today announced the acquisition of Vesseltracker.com GmbH. This acquisition significantly expands Genscape’s network of proprietary real-time energy monitors to deliver the next era in oceangoing fleet analytics and customized reporting.
Managing the European Energy Equation: Report
London, May 2013
The power and gas markets in the European Union are undergoing a period of substantial change due to political intervention, expansion of market reach, and uncertain supply and demand dynamics. Power and gas companies now require advanced technology to overcome challenges that threaten to remove unprepared participants from the market.
New report shows the way for UK shale gas development
London, 22 May 2013
The UK Onshore Operators Group, (UKOOG), the representative body for the UK onshore oil and gas industry, today welcomes the findings of a newly published report, “Getting shale gas working” from the Institute of Directors (IOD). Ken Cronin Chief Executive of UKOOG commented, “this report makes useful recommendations as to how barriers that currently stand in the way of development can be removed to the advantage of local authorities, communities and the industry. We now need to progress with exploratory drilling in order to ascertain how much of the UK’s significant onshore deposits can be technically and commercially recovered.
Read more: New report shows the way for UK shale gas development
European Power Supplies at Risk without Market Reform
Amsterdam, 21 May 2013
Power Sector Reforms Becoming Urgent as Renewables Boom: Europe could face power blackouts if utilities shut loss-making, gas-fired power plants and aging coal generators while they wait for governments and regulators to agree to power market reforms to cope with the growing impact of renewables, according to a new study from IHS.
Read more: European Power Supplies at Risk without Market Reform
New challenges facing oil & gas trading companies
London, May 2013
In the latest Clyde & Co commodity report "Trends in the Oil & Gas Trading Sector", M&A data for the oil & gas sector in 2012 illustrates a significant shift in the strategic thinking of trading businesses, a change that will bring with it increased political and regulatory risks.
Read more: New challenges facing oil & gas trading companies
The Natural Gas Games Begin
London, May 2013
Washington this week has been engulfed in the natural gas export conundrum, with a Senate energy committee’s first in a series of natural gas forums starting off on 14 May. They’re just testing the waters here, but next week we’ll get down and dirty on this one: the entire meeting will be devoted solely to the natural gas export question.
Medium-Term Oil Market Report 2013
London, May 2013
The global oil market will undergo sweeping changes over the next five years. The 2013 Medium-Term Oil Market Report evaluates the impact of these changes on the global oil system by 2018 based on all that we know today - current expectations of economic growth, existing or announced policies and regulations, commercially proven technologies, field decline rates, investment programmes (upstream, midstream and downstream), etc. The five-year forecast period corresponds to the length of the typical investment cycle and as such is critical to policymakers and market participants.
Rock steady: A special report on coal demand
Global demand for coal remains resilient, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit. Coal, once dubbed the "mundane mineral", is proving to be a surprisingly dynamic commodity. A new report from The Economist Intelligence Unit shows that governments' high-minded efforts will slow coal's progress but not reverse it.
Greatest Challenges Facing European Nuclear
London, 9 May 2013
High capital costs and maintaining public confidence are seen as the greatest challenges facing the European nuclear power industry, according to a recent survey conducted by Platts, a leading global energy, petrochemical and metals information provider. The survey included more than 100 utilities, builders, consultancies, and regulators in Europe and precedes the eighth annual Platts European Nuclear Power Conference set for June 26-27 in Warsaw, Poland.
OPEC Falling Apart at the Seams
London, May 2013
French supermajor Total said recently that it was spending more on security since the January attack on the In Amenas gas facility in Algeria. BP said it had its own concerns, noting it was holding back on natural gas projects in the country because of the security situation there. OPEC-member Algeria has seen production declines in every month so far this year. In a lackluster economy, there hasn't been much from OPEC members to suggest there was any sort of revival. But with seven of the 12 members of the cartel experiencing at least some form of upheaval, the cost of doing business suggests members may need more than a little bit of luck to return to glory.
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