GLG News by Oil and Gas Pipeline Experts

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.

FIN 48 potentially throws firms' tax positions into sharp relief.  Relatively modest preemptive actions and changes in internal control can significantly blunt the extent to which firms are subject to undesired disclosure with respect to their tax positions.

-- D.C. Circuit decision in National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. v. FERC vacates and remands Order No. 2004 as applied to natural gas pipelines. -- The Commission's theoretical concerns with potential anti-competitive conduct, without actual evidence of such conduct, were insufficient to justify imposing...

The media hype on alternative energy does not reflect the reality. A lot of the reason for that is lack of knowledge of the energy industry by those that write about it. It will take decades to transition to alternative energy but more importantly today's energy infrastructure is now turning toward...

Casual reading of today's front-page WSJ might imply that Chesapeake Energy is no more than just a financial engineering wonder – not so. Chesapeake hedges aggressively, but they also have hired some of industry’s best geoscientists and engineers and hold over 4 million acres of gas shale properties,...

FERC's Kern River decision opens the door to future changes in the Commission's traditional DCF model for setting pipeline equity returns. FERC indicates a willingness to consider future DCF proxy groups that include properly adjusted MLP distributions. FERC also indicates a willingness to consider...

What to be ready for given that publicly traded firms will have to adjust their balance sheets for underfunded / overfunded pension plans ending for years after 12/15/06?  Look into the footnotes of the 05 financial statements.  For some companies, the adjustment will be big and net equity...

One of the critical issues you need to be clear on with stock buybacks is why is it happening.  The article suggests an attempt to increase EPS.  Maybe.  My first question would be what alternative uses for my money (shareholder talking) do you have? If you're not making me money near...