This morning I spoke to Peter Waiss, Managing Director of ComFin. ComFin offers software solutions and consulting services to the commodity and energy industries. It’s TheBulldog software is a package that supports trading, trade administration, operations, risk management, back office, finance, storage, logistics, and reporting and is used by companies in the crude oil, chemical, petrochemical, soft commodity, shipping, and refined product industries and covers all physical transactions and paper instruments.
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ETRM Goes To School by Patrick Reames
February 3rd, 2010 
Gary Vasey With the aging of the workforce, the energy industry in the United States is facing the loss of the experienced and skilled resources that have developed, deployed and maintained the complex systems that underpin our energy infrastructure and the markets that operate within it. Anticipating the industry’s needs, many universities in the United States have developed programs designed to equip new graduates with a broad understanding of many of the technologies that are required as this industry continues to rapidly evolve in the United States.
The breadth of these educational programs include the traditional engineering courses that focus on the skills necessary to design and maintain the wide ranging systems and infrastructures that delivery energy in its many forms, including recently developed courses focused on “green” energy and smart-grid technologies. Others, like programs offered through the business colleges at the University of Texas, Tulane, and the University of Houston, are focused on the business of energy trading and risk management, acquainting students with the dynamics of the complex energy markets and equipping them with the analytic skills necessary to find employment in the energy trading industry.
