CommodityPoint is moving our Houston area offices. Please note the new address which will be effective Monday, November 2nd.
CommodityPoint, a division of UtiliPoint International Inc.19901 Southwest Freeway, Suite 121Sugar Land, TX 77479
Phone: 281-207-5440Fax: 281-207-5441

Aspect Enterprise Solutions (formally known as OilSpace) announced recently that they’ve signed up African petroleum supplier Cirrus Oil of Ghana. Cirrus Oil will be using Aspect’s SaaS energy trade and risk management (ETRM) system, AspectETRM, to replace an in-house built system of spreadsheets that the company had been using to manage their trading operations.
According […]

Houston, TX USA and Brno, Czech Republic—October 22, 2009— CommodityPoint (www.commodity-point), a division of UtiliPoint International, Inc, is launching a new initiative to assess Energy and Commodity Trading and Risk Management software and vendors. CommodityPoint has provided analyst coverage for E/CTRM software for more than a decade and is now established as the […]

New York, NY and Albuquerque, NM--October 12, 2009--Forbes magazine’s Custom Solutions group and UtiliPoint International, Inc. announced today that the two companies have joined forces to launch a series of interviews with today’s leaders who are actively promoting change in today’s rapidly evolving energy industry. The interviews, to be known as the "The Great Transformers" […]

Open Link announced today that Petrobras, the Brazilian integrated energy giant selected OpenLink’s Endur and cMotion solution sets to operate its crude oil and refined products business in Rio de Janeiro, London, Houston and Singapore.
According to the press release…”Petrobras, which owns and operates oil exploration, production, marketing and transportation, both in Brazil and abroad […]

SolArc announced this week that they have closed a new deal with “Gazprom Neft Trading GmbH, an international marketing and trading company based in Vienna, Austria, to implement SolArc's RightAngle integrated application suite for its crude and refined products trading, operations, accounting and risk management requirements.”
You can see the press release in its entirety here.

Triple Point issued a new press release in the the last few weeks…
They signed up Peabody coal for “Triple Point’s Commodity XL(TM) for Hedge Accounting and Fair Value Disclosure. Peabody will use Commodity XL to assist in meeting the regulatory requirements related to FAS 133, FAS 157 and FAS 161 for its hedging activities across […]

If you’ve tried registering to the ETRMCommunity recently, but haven’t received your confirmation email, you might try again, or send me an email at preames@utilipoint.com. We seem to have a bit of an issue with approving new members. I’ll get our tech folks working on it.
Sorry and Thanks!

A UtiliPoint IssueAlertPatrick Reames - VP, CommodityPoint
I recently had the opportunity to participate in an industry panel discussion exploring various issues in the energy trading and risk management space. While the questions poised to the panel varied, the majority kept returning to issues surrounding managing the flood of data and information pouring into the […]

When I was a kid, my brother and I would spend countless hours making big fireworks from little fireworks. We’d buy as many “blackcats” as our allowances would bear, and then meticulously pull out the fuses and roll the firecrackers between our fingers, coaxing out the black powder. We would then roll the […]