30 Mar What a Difference a Day Makes- to Gas Trading Profits

Posted at 16:30h in Liz Out Loud

0 Likes

Anyone trading physical gas in the UK is well aware of the fact that the gas day runs from 6am to 6am, not from midnight to midnight. That is written down in the Gas (Calculation of Thermal Energy) Regulations 1996, but has been the case...

Read More

05 Mar Low Oil Prices: Don’t Eat the Seed Corn!

Posted at 15:20h in Liz Out Loud

0 Likes

The old adage that “necessity is the mother of invention” is proving true in the independent E&P oil sector. Faced with low oil prices, independent oil producers are introducing oil price “optionality” into their crude oil sales contracts. Crude producers reeling from low prices are...

Read More

26 Feb Swing Low, Sweet US Shale

Posted at 15:47h in Liz Out Loud

0 Likes

I have tried really hard over the last few months not to be the old bore saying to the young traders: “Call this a price slump? Now 1986, there was a price slump.” But there are some intriguing facets to the current oil price kaleidoscope...

Read More

26 Feb A Game of “Pass the Parcel” with Assets

Posted at 15:46h in Liz Out Loud

0 Likes

At the individual field level, the timing of the oil price collapse has in many cases compounded its overall impact. Prices started to fall at the beginning of 4Q 2014 just as joint venture partners all around the world got together to agree budgets for...

Read More