Gas/LNG
Lehman bros to build natural gas trading hub
Global investment bank Lehman Brothers and its affiliate, Lehman Brothers Commodity Services (LBCS), is to build a 40 mile-long natural gas trading hub between Perryville and Delhi in Northeast Louisiana
Gaz de France and Suez agree merger
The boards of French utilities Gaz de France and Suez have reached an agreement to merge. The merger, in negotiation since February 2006, will create the world’s third largest utility company, GDF Suez, with market capitalisation of around €90 billion…
CFTC: Amaranth manipulated gas prices
US futures market regulator alleges that the defunct hedge fund sought to influence the settlement price of Nymex natural gas futures by selling heavily during the closing range. David Watkins reports
Going with the flow
The competitive edge that physical natural gas players have historically enjoyed is being eroded by advances in information flows. Vincent Kaminski and Russell Braziel discuss their study, which suggests new information flows have transformed natural gas…
Amaranth manipulated gas prices: CFTC
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has charged failed hedge fund Amaranth Advisors and its former head trader, Brian Hunter, with trying to manipulate natural gas futures prices.
EDF and RasGas sign LNG supply deal
Utility EDF, through its subsidiary EDF Trading, has signed a liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contract with Qatari company Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas (RasGas).
Amaranth trades “altered natural gas prices.”
Energy hedge fund Amaranth Advisors exploited legal loopholes and altered natural gas prices through “excessive speculation” before its 2006 implosion, a US senate investigation has found.
UET selects Monaco gas scheduling solution
Gas service company United Energy Trading (UET) has selected NewEnergy Associates’ Monaco solution to facilitate their front to back-office activities.
World Energy acquires EnergyGateway
World Energy Solutions, an operator of online exchanges for energy and energy related products, has completed the acquisition of EnergyGateway, a leading online broker of natural gas and electricity for commercial and industrial consumers in the United…
EDF Trading builds its natural gas business in Spain
EDF Trading, the subsidiary of French utility EDF, responsible for wholesale energy market activity, has been granted a licence to trade physical natural gas in Spain and plans to start delivery of physical gas to market counterparties later this year.
ICE acquires ChemConnect's commodity business
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) has agreed to acquire ChemConnect’s commodity trading business. ChemConnect is an electronic marketplace for the $150billion US natural gas liquids (NGLs) and chemicals markets.
Electrabel
European Natural Gas House of the Year
Morgan Stanley
US Natural Gas House of the Year
UBS enters European power and gas
UBS has launched its European power and gas business with a trade in the UK gas market.
Navigating risk
The growth of the LNG spot market means more voyages, but with this comes a likely increase in the number of problems and delays to voyages. Clare Calnan, partner at shipping law firm Curtis Davis Garrard, discusses the extent to which shipowners may be…
Troubled waters
Nord Stream, the planned gas pipeline that will link the super giant Russian gas fields of Siberia directly with Europe, looks set to offer an important solution to the EU's energy security concerns. But even before under-sea construction has begun, the…
AIG Financial Products launches partnership with Tenaska
AIG Financial Products, a member company of American International Group (AIG), has signed an agreement to purchase a 50% partnership interest in Tenaska Energy’s natural gas marketing companies Tenaska Marketing Ventures, Tenaska Marketing Canada, and…
Gas portfolio and transport optimisation
Deciding which instruments to use to balance gas flows is not easy. Gido Brouns and Alexander Boogert discuss how to achieve gas portfolio optimisation by integrating this with the various gas transportation options available
Full spectrum
In January, Duke Energy spun off its natural gas business into a stand-alone company – Spectra Energy. David Watkins talks with Martha Wyrsch, Spectra president and chief executive, about the benefits of a pure-play firm versus an energy superstore
Foot on the gas
Gazprom Marketing and Trading entered the UK in 1999 with ambitious plans. Today it has a presence in six European countries and trades power, oil, coal and liquefied natural gas. Roderick Bruce meets head of trading Keith Martin and business development…