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Appointment of Argus Safety Industry Expert, Paul Dombrowolskyj Strengthens Foresight Commitment in Delivering and Implementing Global Drug Safety Solutions to the Life Science Industry Zug, Switzerland (PRWEB) July 18, 2012 Paul Dobrowolskyj has joined Foresight Group International AG as Director Implementation Services, Europe. He brings over 12 years of drug safety and pharmacovigilance experience. "Foresight will benefit greatly from Paul's industry expertise" said...
HOUSTON, July 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global energy and commodity price reporting agency Argus Media Inc today announced the acquisition of DeWitt & Company Inc (DeWitt), a provider of market assessments and business intelligence to the petrochemical industries. DeWitt provides valuable and unique intelligence on the global petrochemicals markets. DeWitt's reports cover global trade and pricing for aromatics, olefins, butadiene, methanol, MTBE, hydrocarbon resins and other...
LONDON, July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global energy and fertilizer price reporting agency Argus has introduced a new global composite nitrogen fertilizer index in today's Argus FMB Nitrogen report. The new index includes prices for ammonia, urea, UAN solutions, ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulphate. The Argus Nitrogen Index is constructed using 11 pricing points for the Black Sea, the Baltic, the US Gulf, Egypt and the Middle East. The Argus Nitrogen Index will provide a weekly...
LONDON, July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading energy and commodities price reporting organisation Argus has launched the LNG industry's first west Africa fob (free-on-board) spot price assessment, called the AWAF price. Spot LNG volumes in west Africa are increasing and will soon be augmented by exports from Angola's new LNG facility, which should enable a further expansion of the region's spot market. The new Argus west Africa fob (AWAF) price assessment is designed to capture...
LONDON, July 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading energy and commodity price reporting organisation Argus has gained a place in the inaugural "The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200" league table of UK companies with the fastest growth in export sales. Companies in the International Track 200 have averaged two-year international sales growth of 10-500pc/yr. Argus' average international sales growth of 28.51pc/yr puts it in 151st place. The table ranks 200 companies by...
SINGAPORE, July 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading energy and commodity price reporting agency Argus today announced the launch of a new price assessment for Asia-bound cargoes of Iraqi Basrah Light crude, the fastest-growing crude stream in the Mideast Gulf this year. The new price assessment will be published in the daily Argus Crude market report from 2 July. Argus has launched its new Basrah Light assessment in response to industry requests to reflect the growing importance of Iraqi...
SINGAPORE, June 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Asian coal trading community is embracing the API 5 and API 8 indexes for its swap contracts. The API 5 index represents 5,500 kcal/kg NAR (net as received), high-ash coal shipped from Australia and the API 8 index represents 5,500 kcal/kg NAR coal delivered to south China. Major brokers such as Tullett Prebon, Marex Spectron and Ginga Petroleum started offering trades against the indexes from the beginning of this month. The indexes were...
LONDON, June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading energy and commodity price reporting agency Argus is launching a new ethanol price assessment today. The new price is expressed as a differential to gasoline in US dollars per tonne and is published in the daily Argus Biofuels report. The new assessment is in addition to the existing ethanol price assessment in euros per cubic metre. The new assessment is for T2 ethanol at Rotterdam and will help market participants to assess the price of...
HOUSTON, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chilean National Energy Commission (CNE) has decided to switch its data provider for energy markets to leading energy and commodity price reporting agency Argus. The CNE will use Argus for all of its crude oil, petroleum products, biofuels, LPG and freight information from 23 May 2012. The commission selected Argus following a public tender in which international price reporting agencies were invited to participate. One key element of the...
HOUSTON, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global energy price reporting agency Argus has named CSX Transportation, Mosaic and Road and Rail Services as the 2012 winners of its prestigious Win-Win Award in Argus Rail Business. The companies received their award today at the North American Rail Shippers Association conference in Chicago in front of almost 300 representatives of railroads and their customers. The annual honor is given to railroads, shippers and organizations that develop...
