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Getting the measure of it
Measuring risk in the face of a lack of data is one of the greatest challenges for energy risk managers, say respondents of our risk management survey. Stella Farrington sets out this year's findings
Slipping and sliding away
Are fundamentals behind oil's steep price increase and subsequent fall, or was it the bursting of a speculative bubble? Mauricio Bermudez-Neubauer and Paulo Homem Cristo of Point Carbon assess the impact of fundamental and non-fundamental drivers on…
The big finance freeze
Falling oil and gas prices, the credit squeeze and the economic slump are combining to hit energy project investment, while lack of trust in financial markets has sidelined structured products. By Maria Kielmass
LNG pricing - Moving forward
While the bulk of global LNG volumes remain locked up in opaque long-term deals, attempts are being made to introduce price transparency and a forward curve to the market. Roderick Bruce investigates
Boom or bust for US LNG?
The US has been gearing up to import LNG in the face of declining domestic supply, but imports are still less than 20% of the country's LNG terminal capacity. Stephen Makowka and Kenneth Grant of Compass Lexecon report
US carbon market addresses known unknowns
The election of Barack Obama as President has made a federal cap-and-trade emissions scheme in the US almost certain. Pauline McCallion reports on how stakeholders are coping with the remaining uncertainties
Demise of UK suppliers hits end-users hard
The near-simultaneous bankruptcies of the UK's only two independent energy suppliers has exposed problems in market frameworks and added to challenging operating conditions for end-users, finds Roderick Bruce