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Platts is a global provider of news, research, commentary, market data and analysis, and daily price assessments on the oil, natural gas, electricity, nuclear power, coal, petrochemical, and metals markets. The company sells subscriptions to its content, which is offered through websites, ...
Refers to the exchange of a futures position for a physical (swap) position.
Industry:Energy
Gas used as a raw material for chemical properties in creating an end product (like plastics or fertilizer).
Industry:Energy
Rates an regulated entity will charge to provide service to its customers as well as the terms and conditions that it will follow in providing service.
Industry:Energy
Power generated from heat energy derived from hot rock, hot water, or steam below the earth's surface.
Industry:Energy
The temperature at which a fuel, when cooled, begins to congeal and take on a cloudy appearance caused by the bonding of paraffins.
Industry:Energy
Basically, the cost difference of converting natural gas into electricity. It can also be the difference between gas and electricity futures prices. Marketers use the spark spread as an arbitrage opportunity, using tolling or reverse tolling.
Industry:Energy
A charting system which ignores time and displays only the main price changes. They comprise alternate columns of 0s(falls) and Xs (gains). Parameters used are box-size and reversal size.
Industry:Energy
A Japanese charting system which maps the open- high-low-and close of periodic price movements. A box is drawn around the open and close, and painted white if the close is above the open, and black if the close is below the open. The boxes and their little heads and tails look like candles and their wicks. Candlestick studies are full of exotic terms like Morning Star and Dark Cloud Cover; these describe how the black and white candles look, and can be interpreted as buy or sell signals.
Industry:Energy
Tanker size is typically measured in deadweight tonnes (cargo capacity for carrying water).
Here are tanker sizes and typical abbreviations (in deadweight tonnes)
GP General Purpose 16,500 - 24,999
MR Medium Range 25,000 - 44,999
LR1 Large/Long Range 45,000 - 79,999
LR2 Large/Long Range 80,000 - 159,999
VLCC Very Large Crude Carrier 160,000 - 319,999
ULCC Ultra Large Crude Carrier 320,000 - 549,000
Also:
Handysize 35,000
Panamax 65,000
Aframax 80,000
Suezmax (Million barrel) 130,000
Capesize: Any vessel, usually carrying dry bulk cargoes, that is too big to navigate the Panama or Suez Canals.
Industry:Energy
In European Union, a CO2 cap-and-trade scheme covering all 27 EU member states as well as non-EU countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
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