Hints and tips:
...“Our pipeline is good, as it’s been all year. It’s heavily North American — public, private companies, high net-worth individuals.”...
...As Christopher Wright and Matthias Kipping observed in The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting, it is a “myth” that management consulting is “solely the province of boardroom advisers”....
...“If you look at the low-hanging fruit, it’s some farming, energy industry, pipelines, where there are not a whole lot of people,” Mr Toscano says....
...The US pipeline network, however, best serves refineries around the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana....
...Mr Ebanga stresses that CFM has no geared engines in its development pipeline but points out that commercial aviation is likely at some point in the foreseeable future to undergo further big technical changes...
...Following a landmark decision by the US Federal Aviation Administration this week, BP, the oil major, will start inspecting the pipelines at its remote Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska using drones manufactured...
...Carmakers unveil electric and luxury-vehicle drives Two sharply contrasting parts of the automotive industry drew the biggest attention at the annual Detroit Auto Show, writes Robert Wright in Detroit....
...“CP’s position remains that moving grain from the farm to the port is a complex pipeline involving many parties and requires all participants of the Canadian grain handling and transportation system to work...
...“As we ship more energy supplies by rail, we have to take a tougher look at the regulations that are in place,” said Mr McCown, who was first administrator of Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration...
...Rail has emerged as a vital means of transporting US and Canadian-produced crude on routes not well served by pipelines....
...The TSB wrote to both Transport Canada, Canada’s rail safety regulator, and the US’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) urging reviews....
...Phillips Specialty Products Inc (PSPI) – a subsidiary of Phillips 66, itself a spin-off from ConocoPhillips – will cost Berkshire Hathaway slightly less than $1bn, but Mr Buffett is not paying in cash....
...Big increases in domestic crude oil production in the US and Canada in places not served by pipelines have produced sharp increases in crude oil traffic on North America’s rail network in the past five years...
...Union Pacific said that while Texas volumes had slumped after new pipelines linked oilfields to the coast, its Bakken trade – which accounts for 80 per cent of its oil traffic – had kept growing....
...The price at Henry Hub (the benchmark junction on the US gas pipeline network) remains about $4.10, despite some recent price rises....
...There have been spills and fatal accidents involving both pipelines and rail transport....
...If they had moved it by pipeline, it would have sold at the price at the inland pipeline junction of Cushing, Oklahoma, which has been consistently running $13/bbl lower than Brent....
...Many of the new oil-producing areas are cut off from the existing oil pipeline network....
...The biggest change in the market, according to the market observer, is that far more crude is moving by sea from the end of the north-south pipelines in Corpus Christi, Texas, both to the US northeast and...
...but certain that American Railcar and Mr Icahn are interested in Greenbrier’s strong position making tank wagons for railroads that transport crude oil from new shale oil production sites unconnected to pipelines...
...The differential has encouraged US refineries that previously depended on internationally-traded crude to pay to move oil by rail from shale producing regions, which mostly lack pipelines....
...Like most LNG tankers, they were designed to form a predictable link in a predictable LNG supply chain – Rasgas, one of Qatar’s gas production consortiums, refers to the vessels as a “floating pipeline”....
...Maersk said that ships could be more flexible and better for moving small quantities of carbon dioxide than pipelines....
...Moreover, there is tremendous fiscal and monetary stimulus in the pipeline....
...The new studio was the brainchild of Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett, two former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives, who say they have spotted a potentially lucrative gap in the market....
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