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Commodity price transparency under threat

Price reporting agencies are under intense scrutiny after allegations of price manipulation. However, heightened regulation is not necessarily the solution for improved market transparency
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The decision by key oil and gas companies, trading houses and banks to stop submitting data on gas deals to price reporting agencies has revived speculation about the future of pricing regimes in the energy sector.

Evert Monday, Wildcat gives you a headstart on the coming week, as well as a round-up of what mattered last week.

President Kirchner’s latest tin-rattling technique for Argentina’s untapped shale resources is also a threat to the country’s tax evaders.

Artificial gas prices are an anachronism which China must do away with to ensure continued growth in the sector
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Gas Perspectives
The future of gas remains flexible
Joseph Dutton, a research associate at the Global Gas Security Project at the University of Leicester, discusses the shift in the gas industry to address the needs of an increasingly global and flexible energy market.
Editorial
EU’s internal market vision: pie in the sky?

In the coming year the EU will face issues with cross-border infrastructure, a troubled carbon trading scheme, and the possiblity of uncoordinated national capacity mechanisms threatening its vision of an integrated energy market.
- A wolf in sheep’s clothing?
- Each man for himself?
- Is the UK going mad for gas?
- Fool’s gold
- One continent, two countries
- Measuring the Middle Kingdom
- Across the great divide
- Christof Ruhl, BP’s Chief Economist: The disappearance of oil-indexed contracts
- Feeding the dragon
- Jaipal Reddy, India’s minister of petroleum and natural gas: An optimistic outlook for India’s gas supply

