International Petroleum Exchange (IPE)
Looking back: Chaos ensues at IPE amid protest
Greenpeace activists burst into exchange ‘commando style’
IPE relaunches UK power futures
The International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), the London-based energy futures and options exchange, will relaunch UK baseload and peakload electricity futures contracts on September 14. Meanwhile, London-based clearing house LCH Clearnet yesterday cleared…
Nybot in Nymex sights
The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) plans to buy the New York Board of Trade (Nybot) as part of its expansion and acquisition drive, according to Nymex president Robert Collins.
Crude oil takes a double hit
Mark Powell of GlobalView Software looks at how crude prices are being affected by the impending war with Iraq and the general strike in Venezuela
OTC power market down by 60% as firms switch to regulated markets
There has been a sharp decline in the number of over-the-counter gas and power contracts since the demise of Houston-based energy trader Enron. Firms initiating power trades are increasingly conducting them via exchanges or through their clearing…
IPE pulls ‘premature’ power contract
London’s International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) has suspended trading on its electricity futures contract. The instrument, which has traded only 70 lots since its launch in March last year and nothing since the five lots it traded in January, has…
ICE moves into UK gas and power market
Atlanta-based electronic energy and commodities trading exchange, the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), is introducing its trading platform into the UK gas and power markets.