Lausanne traders losing no sleep

On the streets of Lausanne, on the shores of Lake Geneva, protesters demonstrated at the weekend against commodity trading firms’ use of the country as a base for their activities, and the limited transparency of their operations. On Monday, the bosses of the world’s le

15 四月 2016

German Pellets: The elephant in the room

Biomass market participants from all over the world gathered in London for the annual Argus Media biomass conference, but there was one noticeable absentee — German Pellets, until recently one of the world’s largest wood pellet producers.

13 四月 2016

Quito´s reality check on Doha

Sometimes you just have to tell it like it is. That´s what Colombian energy minister María Lorena Gutiérrez has done in the run-up to a 17 April meeting of oil producers in Doha.

13 四月 2016

Australian LNG knocks on Europe’s door

The creeping global LNG glut is turning trade flows upside down. Sellers are searching far and wide for someone to take their cargoes.

05 四月 2016

Inequality is an energy issue

The IMF’s Christine Lagarde painted a gloomy picture for the world economy today in Frankfurt. The recovery that began in emerging markets hasn’t been taken up by advanced economies, and it "remains too slow, too fragile, and risks to its durability are increasing".

01 四月 2016

Can The Lady tame the dragon?

When China’s top energy officials decided to build a multi-billion dollar oil and gas import pipeline through neighbouring Myanmar (Burma), they certainly weren’t expecting to have to report back to Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

01 四月 2016

Desperate times, desperate measures

This month’s Doha meeting of oil producers is being written off even before all the party invitations have been RSVP'd. And its immediate impact on production, let alone exports and prices, will indeed be limited. As the IEA’s executive director, Fatih Birol, told Argus

30 三月 2016

Ta-ta Tata Steel

Yesterday, the Tata Steel board ended months of speculation and arm-twisting when it rejected a proposed restructuring plan for its UK strip products arm, effectively voting to exit the UK industry for good. Tata is already in talks with Greybull Capital to sell its UK

24 三月 2016

How much US LNG is under construction?

The first new US LNG since 1969 was exported last month. But there is more to come with other liquefaction projects under construction.

23 三月 2016

How the EU ETS restricts climate ambition

The EU faces an internal rift over its climate ambition. And not because of the potential for Brexit — although this could also cause problems — but because, following the historic Paris agreement, some countries want to go much further in terms of emissions reductions

22 三月 2016

Japan’s nuclear headache just won’t go away

Japan’s mighty nuclear power plant fleet has been brought to a standstill by just 29 residents, adding millions of dollars to the country’s energy import bill.

15 三月 2016

Mathematics in the service of man

The self-certificated production numbers provided to the Opec secretariat by member countries for publication in the organisation’s Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR) are viewed with scepticism by the “secondary sources” — including the likes of Argus — that the IEA and,

14 三月 2016

Is sustainability biomass’ problem and solution?

The biomass industry has a problem — its public image. A sector as reliant on government policy and subsidy as the industrial biomass market is needs the backing of the general public. But the narrative is too often dictated by NGOs challenging its environmental credent

07 三月 2016

ExxonMobil’s TMI issue

With $12bn raised in a recent debt offering and more than $300bn of its own shares held in treasury, ExxonMobil has the dry powder to purchase just about any oil and gas company in the world. From Anadarko to Devon to even BP, the regular rumblings of an acquisition bi

04 三月 2016

What´s in a name?

Two of the world´s largest known oil deposits boast the names of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva. The thinking goes, these are the towering figures who showered the wealth of their countries´ abundant natu

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