Clean fuels
Evolution Markets enters biofuels market
Evolution Markets has launched brokerage and financial services for the US and global biofuels market.
GFI opens Singapore biofuel desk
Inter-dealer broker GFI has opened a physical biofuel broking desk in Singapore. The new desk is a response to the continued growth in global demand for green energy products, and will be overseen by experienced GFI broker Jeremy Searle.
Food for fuel
In part II of our investigation into the attraction of 'cleantech' investment, Catherine Lacoursière looks at the growth of biofuel plants, and asks: does the world have enough feedstock to power them?
Progressive, Centrica team up in clean coal project
Progressive Energy, a clean coal project developer, is to team up with UK-headquartered utility Centrica to develop an advanced clean coal project in the UK.
CBOT launches OTC ethanol contracts
Hot on the heels of its benchmark ethanol futures contract, the Chicago Board of Trade has unveiled plans for two new over-the-counter (OTC) Ethanol Calendar Swap contracts.
Making green with ethanol
Financial investors and commodity traders are paying closer attention to the US corn crop, due to the potential impacts it may have on the growing ethanol market. Daven Voorhies explains
UBS, Diapason launch first biofuels index
Swiss bank UBS and Swiss commodity firm Diapason Commodities Management Investors launch the first commodity-based index for biological fuels.
UBS, Diapason to launch first biofuels index
Swiss bank UBS and Swiss commodity firm Diapason Commodities Management Investors are to launch the first commodity-based index for biological fuels.
Standard Bank invests in biodiesel
South Africa-based Standard Bank has entered the biodiesel sector with an $8 million equity investment in Biodiesel Energy Trading (BET).
Shell:powering up
Shell Trading’s core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people define thecompany and how it does business
LNG makes headway
The market for liquefied natural gas is ripe for expansion, given the scarcity of oil and LNG’s cleaner burning properties, and a short-term market is emerging for the first time. Eric Fishhaut looks at the evolving structure of this international market
Ethanol
The production of ethanol – a component of gasoline – is growing fast, which has led to the imminent launch of two ethanol futures contracts and a joint production venture involving Sempra Energy. By Joe Marsh
Wolfgang Schollnberger
WOLFGANG SCHOLLNBERGER has spent 37 eventful years in the oil and gas industry. He talks to Stella Farrington about his vision for a sustainable energy mix
Grain versus cane
Since Nybot listed a new futures contract for ethanol in May, the product hasemerged as a critical ingredient in US refining. Gasoline traders may find themselvesworrying about crop reports as much as they monitor Opec meetings and Nymex crude. Sandy…
At ease with ethanol
Central Illinois Energy, a US farming co-op, is in the process of building anethanol plant. And it has already started to think about hedging, reflectingthe growing sophistication of the US ethanol market. PaulLyon reports