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“Slow and Painful” recovery for oil industry says Moodys
Ratings agency Moody's expects economic recovery within the global oil industry in 2010 to be 'slow and painful', according to its Industry Outlook for the Global Integrated Oil sector published last week.
Oil & gas sector stung by Obama budget proposals
Tax changes proposed in President Obama's 2010 budget have raised concerns in the US oil & gas industry about supply security and price volatility. Pauline McCallion reports
Power outlet
The 13th annual Energy Risk USA conference brought key industry figures together in Houston to discuss the latest developments in energy markets and risk management
Full marks
Michel Marks, former chairman and board member of Nymex, tells Roderick Bruce about his role in taking the exchange from small potatoes to a cross-commodity powerhouse
Recognising outstanding contributions
To celebrate it's 15th anniversary, Energy Risk is honouring pioneer traders, top women and pioneer quants who've made an outstanding contribution to energy trading and have shaped today's energy markets
The price isn't right
Former Saudi oil minister and head of Opec, His Excellency Sheikh Yamani, speaks to Roderick Bruce about his views on the past, present and future of the global crude oil markets
Staging a transformation
Energy risk management has transformed since the early 1990s. Pauline McCallion speaks to risk managers about the challenges they faced in the early days and how they compare with the issues faced today
Michael Cosgrove
Our 15th anniversary profile series of key energy industry figures continues as Pauline McCallion talks with with Michael Cosgrove, head of commodities and energy brokerage, North America at GFI
Get-out clause
The economic downturn and fall in commodities prices have left many companies holding contracts that are now unfavourable. Julianne Hughes-Jennett and Alexander Anslow of Lovells discuss when force majeure and other clauses can be used to cancel or…
Rogue PVM oil deals not behind price spike say traders
Unauthorised trading in Brent futures contracts on June 30 by a staff member at oil broker PVM was not the main cause of a spike in oil prices, according to traders.
Model students
Mauro Cesa, Energy Risk's technical editor, talks to quants about how quantitative analysis for energy markets has developed and what they see as the most influential technical publications of the past 15 years
Charting 15 years of prices
David Linton looks back at the long-term trends for oil, gas & power and where prices might go next
15-year Rankings
Energy Risk reveals the top-ranked companies over 15 years of Commodity Rankings
In the beginning...
Some aspects of the energy markets are unrecognisable from 1994, while other issues remain remarkably similar. Stella Farrington looks at the landscape of 15 years ago and how it has moved on
Learning from losses
Energy and commodity markets have staged impressive growth in the past 15 years, but there have also been some eye-watering failures along the way. Katie Holliday considers what has been learnt from these catastrophes, and whether derivatives scandals…
Making markets
In the first of two articles tracing the beginnings of energy derivatives, Roderick Bruce talks to oil trading pioneers about the market’s formative years