Energy Risk
Purchase timing
Managing purchase timing risk is a constant issue for wholesale power buyers. Pavel Diko reviews products that reduce this risk, proposes a lookback option that can eliminate it completely and outlines a hedging strategy for the option writer
Engineering change
A new risk management culture is evolving in the Asian clean development mechanism market, which should lower CDM project risk while expanding financing options, finds Catherine Lacoursière
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…
Changing the game
Steven Wardlaw and Byron Romain of Baker Botts discuss the new role for foreign investment in the Russian Federation's hydrocarbon industry
Better prospects
Russia offers better prospects for industry to develop and far more investment opportunities than is widely recognised, writes Pavel Ulianov of Russian metal giant Rusal
Purchase timing risk management in electricity forward markets
Managing purchase timing risk is a constant issue for wholesale power buyers. Pavel Diko reviews products that reduce this risk, proposes a lookback option that can eliminate it completely and outlines a hedging strategy for the option writer
GFI buys London shipbroker
Inter-dealer broker GFI has bought Century Chartering, a London shipbroker.