Earlier this year, ION sent shock waves through the E/CTRM community as it announced the acquisition of both Aspect Enterprise Solutions and then OpenLink. While merger & acquisitions in the E/CTRM space are nothing new, having a history as long as......
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I had the opportunity to participate in Drillinginfo’s 2018 Energy Disruptors Summit last week in Lake Tahoe. This event, which focused on many of the critical issues facing today’s US energy markets, was designed not as a conference, but ......
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Reuters posted a story overnight that Exxon Mobil, the “largest non-trading energy company in the world”, is going to shed that title and start actively trading around their huge physical resources. From the Reuters story: Exxon Mobil Corp......
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As readers of this blog may remember, back in December I looked at the story of the Long Island Iced Tea Corp. changing their name to the Long Blockchain Corp. and declaring that they had pivoted from being a money hemorrhaging bottled-drink company to......
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Quorum announced late last week that they had purchased Calgary-based Entero. As both companies have had considerable success in their respective markets – Quorum in the US E&P and midstream oil and gas space and Entero in the same segments ......
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Allegro announced this morning that they had acquired energy and commodity risk and analytics firm Financial Engineering Associates (FEA) from MSCI, who had previously bought FEA as part of their acquisition of Barra in 2004. Founded in 1990, FEA has ......
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Now that the acquisition of Openlink by ION has closed, I visited with Openlink’s EVP & CMO Nancy Pearson, and Ken Knowles, EVP of strategy & business development, this morning to get an update. With the the deal having only recently closed ab......
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Blockchain is the hottest thing since Y2K. Everyone is talking about it, many companies are investing in it and lots of tech companies have built-out huge practices dedicated to creating practical applications for it (Deloitte said this week they have......
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I know this topic isn’t ETRM, CTRM or CM, but it is about internet security, identity theft, possible international money laundering and a corporation’s responsibility to address issues caused when they enable any of the above…so, bear with me…it is ki......
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I had the opportunity to visit with Steve Hughes, president of Aspect Enterprise, this week to get an update on their business now that the ION acquisition has closed. Though he indicated that they are in the process of merging their administrative fu......
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