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CMS Energy Corp.'s energy marketing unit, CMS Marketing, Services and Trading, was ranked first in customer satisfaction among the 68 largest natural gas marketing companies in the U.S. by an [...]

Selected Public Companies Ranked by 1999 revenue Westchester County Rank Name, address, phone number and website Area code: 914 (unless otherwise noted) 1 Philip Morris Companies Inc. [*] 120 Park [...]

Utilities: Moody's, Fitch Lower Rating On SDG&E The same bill that brought rate relief for San Diegans may spell trouble for San Diego Gas & Electric Co. The investor service [...]

British Energy is reported to be offering its customers some of the fastest response times in the country, following the implementation of the latest in communications technology. Britain's largest electricity [...]

Rising interest rates have pushed the yields of a surprising number of stocks, bonds and mutual funds to more than 10 percent. Buying them puts you 10 percent ahead of [...]

AGOURA HILLS, CA and DEERFIELD, IL-Mid-size business customers demand more from their electric utility service providers in terms of service, reliability, and price than do residential customers, according to the [...]

New Jersey, California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New York are the states with the highest Market Openness Rating for retail energy consumption, according to a new study by XENERGY, Inc., [...]

The 2000 Data Book provides extensive projection data on North American energy markets. The 800-p book features annual historical data for 1995, 1996, and 1997; and a summary of the [...]

Traditionally, electric power was sold only through regulated utilities. But in today's era of rapid deregulation, a new set of sellers--"power marketers"--is emerging. Included are not only utilities that have […]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * BUSINESSES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY will soon have to decide who is going to provide their electricity. Although deregulation is not yet in full force nationwide, there [...]

Oil & Gas Journal's annual report on the performance of the top 200 publicly owned oil and gas firms in the U.S. has become something of an institution in the [...]

Entrepreneur Tom Noonan hopes that energy startup JouleX, which he helped found, will become a huge success. The company helps companies monitor, analyze, and manage the energy consumption of computers and other networked devices.

Bauma Conexpo Africa took place in Johannesburg from 15 to 18 September. IRN was there and talked to some of the major exhibitors present. From one end of the Bauma [...]

Pierre Alvarez says he grew up with five brothers and sisters and that he worked his summers at a big refinery near his hometown. Alvarez says the ever increasing price of oil is something new in his 25 years in the energy industry.

Fuelled by gasified wood chips from a nearby forest, Japan's largest wood-gas-to-energy plant, powered by two of GE Energy's Jenbacher engines, has successfully started operation at the Murayama site in [...]

It was good to be in energy stocks in 2004. 'Upstream, downstream, oil service or coal, take your pick: shareholder returns were delightful,' report John S. Herold Inc. analysts Bob [...]

This on-going column provides statistics for companies in a range of industries, along with their credit ratings.

This article contains the following subsections: consolidation, privatization transform industry; and concludes with Two new breeds of oil company. The article also includes a list of the top 20 world oil companies.

Electric Utilities Update--February 7, 2003 Company Description: Dominion Resources operates in three main segments: Dominion Energy, Dominion Exploration and Production (E&P), and Dominion Delivery. Dominion Energy houses the company's 24,000 [...]

Enron's diversification into energy trading has made it the biggest winner in utility deregulation. CEO Kenneth Lay is leading a new round of diversification into broadband services, telecommunications, paper, and plastics.

Geneva-based consulting company Petroconsultants, has devised a ranking system that measures the feasibility factors in putting up energy operations in different countries. Countries are ranked according to the attractiveness it holds for the industry. The Petroleum Economics and Policy Solutions (PEPS) Rating and Ranking Index includes ratings on fiscal risk, political risk and prospectivity. The PEPS RRI Index for 1997 will be available on the second quarter of 1998.

Suppliers are looking for sufficient financial resources to fund new, high-volume, long-distance gas supply projects to meet the increasing demand for natural gas in Europe. However, lenders consider gas megaprojects involving European utilities uneconomical due to the high costs, long lead times and lengthy pay-out periods of these ventures. Financing constraints have engendered smaller schemes which involve indigenous gas producers since bigger projects will still require considerable improvements in the political and economic environment., SIMPLE question, seldom asked at the innumerable conferences patronised by European gas executives, is: Who is going to pay for new supplies? In the rosy scenario that is typically presented, [...]

Turkey's True Path government, under the leadership of Tansu Ciller, is aiming to increase the country's electricity production by 44% to meet the demands of the 2000s. About $2 billion is expected to be invested in a variety of new energy projects ranging from combined- and single-cycle gas-fired power stations to hydro-electric power plants. The diversification strategy also involves the emphasis on indigenous output and the development of the country's leaky national electricity grid., As long as the finance can be found, writes Nigel Ash, power generation capacity will be boosted. Boosting electricity is part of the plan to become less dependent on imported [...]

The African National Congress is expected to implement changes in South Africa's energy policy by reducing subsidies to the synfuel program and pushing for the expansion of the non-synfuel oil industry. Soekor, the state-owned oil exploration company, is being considered for restructuring or privatization, while the central emergency fund and the strategic fuel fund is likely to be scrapped. Other developments in the South African oil industry include the upgrading and de-mothballing of refinery capacity and the increasing involvement of South African companies with foreign ventures., Andi Spicer, in Johannesburg, talked to the politicians and executives who will shape South Africa's post-apartheid oil industry. Deregulation and expansion are in the pipeline THE South African oil industry [...]

As reported by survey respondents within each region. On a scale of 1 to 5,5 being the greatest: New England Fuel oil Natural gas 5.0 ME * NH * VT [...]

Change! Change is the big word in the 2007-2008 political arena. The energy business is no different. Change is taking a major role here also. Slogan for the 2008 Offshore [...]

Corporations look forward to increase in earnings after the Federal Reserve recently cut down on interest rates. But shares may go down if these expectations would not come about as businesses are being affected by the weakening U.S. economy and job and housing markets, oil price increases and the subprime mortgage crisis. Performances in the technology, energy, and health care sectors are discussed.

Industry financings totalled a record C$15.8bn ($12.7bn) in 2004, up by 37% from 2003's C$11.5bn, according to Sayer Securities. Equity increased to C$4.9bn from C$2.4bn, led by financings for oil [...]

GULFPORT -- Fitch Ratings has upgraded the ratings of Mississippi Power Company (MPC) and affirmed the ratings of the MPC's parent Southern Company (SO), its sister organizations Georgia Power Company [...]

Have you ever wondered how anything ever gets done in this country? Even with the increases in technology that have supposedly been designed to make our lives quicker and easier, [...]

Sempra earns ranking: Sempra Energy has earned the number five spot on Fortune magazine's prestigious annual list of 'America's 50 Best Companies for Minorities.' They have earned a top-five position [...]