GLG News by Former C-level Executives in the Energy & Industrials Councils in Member Programs

With a surprising number of innovative powertrain technologies on display at this years' auto shows, there are some winners and some losers worth mentioning. Clean diesel is clearly the dark horse and the one to watch while hybrids are likely to fade from popularity due...

Detroit's automakers have long been masters at avoiding the imposition of mandated technology. In Detroit, the greater public interest has always taken a backseat to the local politics of union jobs and automaker profitability. By contrast, automotive leaders in Japan have typically taken a longer view...

Bank of America has taken a high profile to catch up with the movement of all US banks to get on the green bandwagon. The fact is that investors are driving this surge of interest. Yet, the markets are still financially immature and full of risk.

With states on both coasts moving forward with their own cap and trade carbon trading regimes, it is only a matter of time before the federal government steps into a mandatory carbon market for the whole country. This is actually following the path of market development for acid raid and ozone remediation....

Major oil companies have been reluctant to step up their upstream drilling programs because they have been unwilling to admit that higher oil and gas prices are a long term trend. They now seem to be accepting the reality that they are in a long term secular trend of higher sustained energy prices.

There is a misnomer that greentech is another dotcom bubble. What most fail to realize is that the world's largest business energy is an underinvested and highly promising sector.

1.  Lord Browne helped BP become the global powerhouse it is today2.  Lord Browne also helped bring down BP's stature among its peers3.  BP has many opportunities for being an exemplary company

*RDS' offer to buy-out the minority shareholder of Shell Canada was opportunistic at first, but interesting now*Shell Canada's purchase of Blackrock's assets will need to be handled should RDS be successful in taking them over*What happens then to Western and Chevron and the AOSP?

At the conclusion of the AED’s 88th Annual Meeting & CONDEX, held in Las Vegas on January 16-18, the enthusiasm and optimism for the year ahead was mentioned by many attendees.  This year’s show was one of the highest attended on record in fact. Total registrations climbed 17 percent from last...

The arrival of new jets in the VLJ category is going to produce a large group of first-time jet owners.These owners may not realize that their individual or corporate ownership of a new jet or fleet calls for highly specialized legal considerations.