Quorum Business Solutions, better known as Quorum, is clearly a leader in the upstream oil and gas space. Their TIPS gas plant accounting system has been a mainstay of the marketplace for years. Their products covering land management, division order management, production accounting and other E&P activities have been extremely successful and have […]

SunGard Consulting Services is presenting a webinar on “Evolving to a Single, Timely & Accurate Source of Commodities Market Data”
If multiple channels of market data, and their reconiliation, are overwhelming your organization, you should check it out. It will be next Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 2-3 pm EST.
For more information, click here.

The election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the US is clearly a historic achievement and one well deserved as he certainly ran the better campaign.
However, unless you are invested in a favored alternative energy technology like wind or solar, Obama’s election does not bode well for the energy industry. He has […]

UtiliPoint International is conducting research to examine the impacts of the recent and ongoing market shifts on companies participating in evolving commodity markets, and we would very much appreciate your input.
To participate in this survey, please simply click on the link below and complete the questions online. The process will likely take around 5 […]

For those that know me, it will come as no surprise that based on current polling data, I’m probably going to be pretty disappointed with the outcome of the election tomorrow. I’ve tried to stay out of the political fray on this blog as much as possible. However, with the quotes by Sen. Obama […]

This was forwarded to me by blog reader Sean…
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer, and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth […]

While Triple Point has recently released a raft of announcements noting multiple sales of products derived from their acquisition of INSSINC earlier this year; according to the rumor mill, they are not talking about what would be the largest license deal in the history of the ETRM/CTRM market.
According to multiple sources, the company has closed […]

Russia, Iran and Qatar are moving to create an OPEC-like consortium for natural gas. While the Qatar and Russian representatives say the “gas triorka” is not intended to set global prices for natural gas, the Iranian representative to the group, Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari, has said, “There is a demand to form this gas […]

UtiliPoint International is conducting research to examine the impacts of the recent and ongoing market shifts on companies participating in evolving commodity markets, particularly as they apply to the physical players in the market. Additionally, we’re looking at the impacts to the ETRM/CTRM software used to manage transactions in this volatile environment.
Based upon […]

Unfortunately, he wasn’t much help…
Good news though - my vacuum broke last night, so at least now not everything sucks.