A vessel will trial the newly-expanded Panama Canal from 27 June as part of the project which will cut journey time and distance for new US LNG producers selling into Asia. It has not been an easy path and development of the expansion has been slow and more expensive than planned. Numerous problems included leaks […]
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Time for a dose of realism in designing financial regulation
It is interesting to think the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) planned to start accepting from April applications for licences to operate as an investment firm under a new EU financial regime that was slated to come in in early 2017. Now the start of the second markets in financial instruments directive (MiFID II) has […]
Project delays: When the line between parody and reality blurs, it’s time to make a decision
Energy can be a dry topic. Sometimes, if I tell new people I’m an energy journalist a now-familiar look flashes across their face, and it is clear they have just thought, but not said: “Is that a real job then?” As a subject, energy encompasses finance, economics and physics among many other things – rarely […]
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