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The U.K. has never been so reliant on natural gas from Norway, raising the possibility of higher prices when supplies to Europe’s biggest market for the fuel are disrupted.
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The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies defended the independence of its research and refuted claims by Sergei Komlev, OAO Gazprom’s head of pricing, that its work lacks balance.
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The Tankard European natural gas indexes started this week are an improvement on those published by price-reporting agencies because they are harder to manipulate, according to the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies.
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Russia and Qatar are under growing pressure from Europe’s biggest utilities to scrap a 40-year-old system that links natural-gas prices to oil after Brent crude’s 23 percent surge this year.
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BlackRock Inc., Nuveen Investments Inc. and Federated Investors Inc. learned how bondholders can get swept into a bankruptcy when a Chicago high-rise retirement community became 2011’s second-largest municipal default.
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Commodities fell for a fourth day, led by a 3.3 percent slide in crude oil, as Japan’s biggest earthquake and nuclear crisis spurred concern that demand for raw materials, including some energy products, will shrink.
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OAO Gazprom, the world’s largest natural-gas exporter, is struggling to get a foothold in the Asian markets leading global economic growth.
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Europe is missing out on the natural gas boom that is transforming energy use in the U.S. and Asia, instead burning cheaper, dirtier coal imported from America.
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OAO Gazprom’s decision to cut prices for five customers signals a weakening position for Russia in Europe’s gas market as the economic crisis erodes energy demand.
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