Author: Ian Mathieson
The Need for Enterprise Data Management in the NYISO
On October 30, we will be holding a webinar about the New York ISO (NYISO) market. In particular we’ll look at the data, analytic and integration challenges around this market and some of the ways in which ZEMA can help.
In the coming few weeks we’ll dissect each of these challenges in blogs and discuss how ...
Oil Draining From Cushing Reflected in Futures
In the BusinessWeek article, “The Giant Sucking Sound: Why is Oil leaving Cushing’s Tanks So Fast?” , Matthew Philips takes a look at why a “historic glut of crude that built up in Cushing over the past three years” has dropped 40% (to 34 million barrels from 50 million barrels) at the close of August ...
Natural Gas Price Rises Despite Cool Temps and Storage Data
David Bird from the Wall Street Journal wrote an interesting article on August 22 about the climb in natural gas prices even though the country had seen cooler weather and increased storage levels. The cause, he says, is due to the fact that natural gas prices sharply decreased early in the month, making them a ...
Internal Data Management: The Issue of Generating Too Much Data
When I’m speaking with companies about their data management challenges, I usually find that they have two major challenges: internal and external. The external challenge has to do with collection, validation, and normalization of all different kinds of market data. For many companies, this includes commodity prices, weather, forward curves, and other market information. ...
Crude Prices Climb Amid Egyptian Unrest and Positive Growth Indicators
NYMEX crude financial contracts (WTI) settled at 99.6 USD/bbl on Tuesday this week, which is a high not attained in over a year.
A number of factors could be at play to drive this price higher.
One driver could be the political unrest in Egypt which came to a head just yesterday (on July 3rd) with the ...
A Better Way To Create Forward Curves Using ZEMA Curve Manager
For many companies working in the energy and commodity markets, the overall end of day process can represent a huge liability. Often the internal processes and analysis behind curves construction and integration is built on fragile spreadsheet systems; meaning they are not auditable and lack security. They can still be highly manual and typically are ...
How Could the Provincial Election in BC Impact the Oil and Gas Industry?
British Columbia’s (BC) provincial election is scheduled for May 14, with natural resource policies at the top of the agenda. Major issues include expansion of fracking in Northern BC, liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants along the west coast and crude oil pipelines from Alberta are all major points of contention.
The two main parties vying for ...
An Analyst’s Experience of ZEMA 4 – Faster, Smarter, Easier Data Management
As an analyst at ZE, I have been fortunate to work with ZEMA 4 during its development and now its launch. Internally, a lot of excitement has been generated around this product; we’re eager to get ZEMA 4 into the hands of our clients and show it off to as many people as we can.
So ...
The Emergence of Global Gas Markets: Latin America
The Latin American natural gas market has historically been marginal in terms of the world stage. However, the discoveries of large basins of shale gas both locally and in the United States have been shifting the natural gas landscape in Latin America. In the final blog of our five-part series on gas, I will take ...
ZEMA 4: Expecting More from your Data Output – Get Better Results for Your Analysis
Data tables are the raw output of queries. Without analysis they really don’t provide you with a great deal of intelligence. This intelligence is added through the analysis and outputting of the data. When you actually output this analysis you’re often still stuck with a column of values or a bland, simple graph.
Why do so many analysts ...
