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Building or Buying an Energy and Commodity Enterprise Data Management System: Which Is Best for You?
The data requirements of energy and commodity markets are complex and constantly evolving; finding ways to efficiently manage, organize, and store data are among the most significant challenges businesses face…
Reading the Commodity Market Barometer
Since energy products are the backbone of the economy and are widely used by all sectors, the general belief is that a rise in energy commodity prices in translates to…
China’s Growing Impact On The Corn Industry
In an unprecedented move, China rejected a quarter of corn imports this year after discovering the corn violated its ban on specific genetically modified foods. China found 545,000 metric tons…
Alberta’s New Sturgeon Refinery: High Risk for High Reward?
Source: ZE After eight years in the works, a sod-turning ceremony was held September 13, 2013 to celebrate the beginning of a new project that will result in a $…
Inflammable Ice: Japan’s Next Energy Source?
Source: ZE Japan made headlines recently as the resource-impoverished country is considering methane hydrates as a new energy source in order to help gain independence from relying on natural gas…
The 4 ‘Must-Haves’ for Successful Data Management for Energy and Commodity Markets
Source: ZE Data is one of the most valuable intellectual properties a company can have. However ensuring they have the right system in place to collect and host their data is…
Crude Prices Climb Amid Egyptian Unrest and Positive Growth Indicators
NYMEX crude financial contracts (WTI) settled at USD/bbl on Tuesday this week, which is a high not attained in over a year. A number of factors could be at play…
Platts Commodity Week To Descend On Dubai
Source: Platts When I think of Dubai, I think of oil and seven-star hotels. Of course I should know better than to pigeonhole the modern emirate state; which contrary to…
The Emergence of Global Gas Markets: Europe
Continuing in our series on natural gas markets, I’ll be talking about European markets in this blog. Europe is a large complex continent with many different components and over twenty…
The Fate of the World’s Most Actively Traded Commodity – Crude Oil
Ever since people developed efficient means of refining petroleum into a range of different petro-products in the middle of the nineteenth century, crude oil has been a vital factor in…