Articles

• June 2006 Edition / Weathering the Impact of Stormy Price Hikes - At the start of the 2006 hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin, Zachary Simecek takes a look at the impact on the energy markets.
  
  
• May 2006 Edition/Data Management Provider of the Year - LIM is named Data Management Provider of the Year alongside other 2006 award winners such as Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch & JPMorgan.
  
  
• April 2006 Edition/Taking Stock of SOX- Energy Risk's version of the article "Coping with Setbacks" by Sandy Fielden. 
  
  
• March 2006 Edition/Coping with Setbacks- Most risk managers and employees in energy companies are familiar with the concepts of market risk and credit risk, but operational risk is receiving more
  attention in corporate boardrooms these days, writes Sandy Fielden.
  
  
• January 2006 Edition / Sky-high Cost of Clean Air - US emissions allowance prices for sulphur dioxide (SO₂) rose nearly 200% in 2005 (end of November) and 300% during 2004. Sandy Fielden examines the SO₂ emissions allowance market and discovers what market drivers are forcing prices ever higher.
  
  
• November 2005 Edition / Congestion Charges - As the US' premier regional transmission organization, PJM Interconnection's pricing and transmission congestion models must be foolproof, Sandy Fielden describes how they work and the associated risk management mechanisms available to participants.
  
  
• September 2005 Edition / Seasonal Surprises - Understanding how price relationships fluctuate on a seasonal basis is critical for risk managers. During 2005, two of the longest lasting seasonal patterns in the U.S. oil markets have been turned on their head. Sandy Fielden explains the patterns and why they suddenly stopped working this year.
  
  
• July 2005 Edition / Banking on Tankers - New opportunities for freight risk management with a focus on crude (dirty) tanker trade from the Caribbean to the US Gulf. 
  
  
• 2004 Year Book / Effectively Managing Energy Data - See why central databases are the key to success for the modern energy trader.
  
  
• March 2005 Edition / Shopping for Curves - More regulation requires more accurate valuation of forward trades and a need for more reliability in the forward curve tool.
  
  
• November 2004 Edition / 10 Years of Trading - As a regular Energy Risk contributor for some years, Sandy Fielden traces a decade of energy markets.
  
  
• September 2004 Edition / Grain versus Cane - Since NYBOT listed a new futures contract for ethanol in May, the product has emerged as a critical ingredient in US refining. Gasoline traders may find themselves worrying about crop reports as much as they monitor Opec meetings and Nymex crude.
  
  
• March 2004 Edition / A Fact of Life? - Can the price risks associated with abnormally cold winter temperatures and their impact on short term energy demand be predicted ahead of time?
  
  
• December 2003 Edition / Life Without MTBE - The changeover from the use of MTBE as a gasoline blending component, to ethanol, in New York State and Connecticut on January 1, 2004 is likely to lead to price volatility in the oil market and make risk management using the NYMEX Unleaded contract far more complicated.
  
  

The following LIM article is distributed in the EnergyPulse on-line publication:

• March 2003 - US Energy Prices - Risen Again? - A combination of concerns; about a possible war in Iraq, a Venezuelan oil industry strike and freezing temperatures across the continent all combined in the last 14 days of January 2003 to boost prices in the US energy sector to levels not seen since the Winter of 2000. Will the higher prices stick? Logical Information Machines investigates the run up and speculates about the longer term outcome for energy prices.
  
  

The following LIM articles appear in the Energy Power & Risk Management (EPRM) magazine:

• September 2003 Edition / LNG could rescue the US - Sandy Fielden of energy market specialist LIM looks at a potential solution to the US natural gas supply crisis: liquefied natural gas.
  
  
• June 2003 Edition / The cost of deregulation - US electricity deregulation does not necessarily make prices more competitive, as is shown in this study of New England power prices by Logical Information Machines.
  
  
• March 2003 Edition / US energy prices: in line for a fall? - A combination of concerns in the second half of January 2003 has boosted US oil and natural gas prices to levels not seen since the winter of 2000/2001. Will the higher prices stick? LIM examines cause 
  and effect.
  
  
• December 2002 Edition / Power price discovery in Europe - LIM's Sandy Fielden compares different price discovery mechanisms in European electricity markets.
  
  
• September 2002 Edition / Brent changes promise stability - The recent change in Platts' definition of Brent crude oil follows much debate about the price assessment of North Sea Brent crude. Software vendor LIM takes a historic view in a search for the reasons behind the move.
  
  
• June 2002 Edition / Natural gas storage: a market driver changes horses - Given the   importance of natural gas storage figures to energy market traders and analysts, a change in the provider and timing of the data release is an event of some significance.
  
  
• March 2002 Edition / Going to Extremes - With regional generating capacity in the US having  to tackle temperature extremes, software provider Logical Information Machines looks at  Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland market data history to suggest how we might forecast  such extremes.
  
  

• April 2006 Edition/Managing Market Data and Sarbox Compliance for Utilities- LIM provides market data management services that help address SOX compliance and internal audit requests.
  
  

• January 2006 Managing Market Data & Sarbanes Oxley Compliance for U.S. Utility Companies - LIM provides market data management services that help address SOX compliance and internal audit requests.