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Managing Complex Processing Agreements in CTRM

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Description: Currently, there are about 500 operational natural gas processing plants in the US, processing up to 80 Bcf of gas daily. With the advances in shale gas development, new plants continue to be brought on line; while at the same time, older plants are retired as the conventional natural gas resources with which they were developed are depleted. As producers open up new fields and bring new wells on-line, those producers and the plant operators that service those fields are faced with negotiating new processing agreements that reflect not only mutually acceptable commercial terms, but are also reflective of the physical attributes of each of the individual facilities. Despite much standardization in many parts of the energy value chain, such as NASB contracts for wholesale interstate gas transmission and trading, natural gas processing has remained essentially untouched by regulatory or industry mandated standardization. Processing agreements reflect the reality of the business they encompass – these contracts are extremely complex; each is negotiated with terms that are bound only by the physical constraints of the processing facility. And just as there is no “standardized processing facility”, there is no “standardized processing contract”.

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White Papers

Managing Complex Processing Agreements in CTRM

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Trading Physical Coal in a Dynamic World Market

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Description: In the last several years, new fundamentals have clearly emerged in global coal markets. Rapidly rising demand from China and India, along with the renaissance of coal-fired power generation in Europe, has resulted in significant increases in ocean freight rates and coal export prices. These increases have led to larger trade flows and significantly higher price volatility, yet created a more vibrant international coal market. Although the coal market offers significant opportunity, it is also fraught with significant risks, especially on the operational side, as a result of the sheer complexity of coal trading and logistics.

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Navigating UK Power White Paper

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Description: This white paper reviews some of the challenges surrounding UK Power from an ETRM perspective. There are just a handful of ETRM solutions actually in use for UK Power right now as a result. It introduces Contigo’s EnTrader suite as an addition to this short list.

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Murex LME White Paper

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Description: This CommodityPoint White Paper looks at trading on the LME and Murex as a potential solution for the CTRM software needs.

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A new White Paper by Patrick Reames on Ethanol

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Description: A White Paper by Patrick Reames.

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SourceBooks

CommodityPoint Consultants and Systems Integrators SourceBook 2011

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Description: The CommodityPoint Consults and Systems Integrator Sourcebook is designed to be a useful and usable resource to help those seeking information and assistance with CTRM software selection or software implementation services or training services, risk management consulting or custom development services. It is a starting point in that process providing a high-level guide to allow you to select a long list of consultants and/or systems integrators specializing in or experienced with energy and commodity trading risk management (E/CTRM) software. IT is NOT designed to be a replacement for your selection process.

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CommodityPoint CTRM SourceBook – Q4 2011

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Description: The Nov 2011 update of the CommodityPoint Sourcebook. The CommodityPoint CTRM Software Sourcebook is designed to be a useful and usable resource to help those seeking to select CTRM software. It is a starting point in that process providing a high-level guide to allow you to select a long list of vendors that may or may not prove to be capable and competent to supply your solution after you have conducted an RFI and/or RFP process. IT is NOT designed to be a replacement for your selection process. CTRM software is simply too complex to be selected properly without a reliable and complete selection process. We hope the CommodityPoint CTRM Sourcebook will allow you to compile a list of vendors that may include some you might otherwise not have considered or may even not previously been aware of. In that way, we believe it can make your selection process more complete.

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Ancillary Sourcebook latest update

Download: The Ancillary SourceBook
Description: Vendors and products of software ancillary to CTRM software – V. 2. July 2011.

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Ancillary Sourcebook – Jan 2011

Name: The Ancillary SourceBook
Description: Vendors and products of software ancillary to CTRM software – V. 1. Jan 2011.

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CommodityPoint CTRM Sourcebook v3.0 (May 2011 edition)

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Description: The May 2011 update of the CommodityPoint Sourcebook.

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Reports

CTRM Founded In and Around Business Intelligence

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Description: Leading commodity trading organizations know that managing risk effectively demands not just the ability to capture transactions and run risk metrics, but also the tools to enable a thorough understanding of the portfolio: implying the need to have visibility into the numbers and being able to quickly drill down into those numbers to find hidden risks and opportunities. In this environment, trading, risk management, and financial controls personnel increasingly require tools to allow them to quickly identify and investigate those risks and opportunities. In this latest release of CommodityPoint’s Technical Briefing Note series, we look at Woodlands Solutions Phoenix Core product, a solution designed from the ground up to provide business intelligence as a core capability of a fully featured CTRM system.

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CommodityPoint Service Provider Study Report – Europe

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Description: This report looks at Consultants and System’s Integration firms in Europe.

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CommodityPoint Service Provider Study Report – North America

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Description: This report looks at Consultants and System’s Integration firms in North America. A follow up looking at Europe will be out in the next 8 weeks or so.

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Industry Views – Next Generation CTRM

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Description: The views of four software vendors on the next generation of CTRM software.

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2011 CommodityPoint CTRM Market Sizing Study Report – FREE Version

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Description: CommodityPoint has historically undertaken assessments of market size for Energy Trading & Risk Management (ETRM) Software on a two year cycle. The last two studies of this kind were published for European ETRM market size in October 2007 and for North American ETRM market size in August 2009. For the first time, CommodityPoint has extended the scope of its market sizing studies to include all commodities in order to present an analysis of the market size for Commodity Trading & Risk Management software. This type of market sizing data is critical for this industry as it is used by investors, software firms, consulting organizations and others to support investment decisions and guide the allocation of resources (both capital and human).

Unfortunately, establishing a definitive size for any market is difficult exercise, and is impossible to complete with absolute certainty. Market sizing, being a forward looking exercise, must be based upon numerous factors, including overall economic conditions, forces encouraging new market entrants, historical buying patterns of existing market participants, technology drivers encouraging new purchases, and the number and capabilities of the product vendors available to meet the needs of the market.

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