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INTRODUCTION
The North American energy markets, influenced by both domestic and international develop-
ments, are undergoing a rapid evolution that has and continues to challenge energy commodity
producers, processors, and traders. Driven by technical innovation, regulatory intervention and
globalization, the changes occurring have impacted the entirety of the energy supply chain - es-
tablishing new pricing correlations, increasing operational complexities and creating new mar-
kets and trading hubs…and, by extension, created vast new pools of data and information that
must be considered when formulating market strategies and trading decisions.
Despite these challenges, for those properly equipped
with the tools and applications that can capture, ana-
lyze and support real-time decision making, there are
any number of new opportunities to profit in this com-
plex environment.
In this white paper we will examine the ongoing chang-
es and the resultant challenges in a few of the most
rapidly evolving North American energy markets, and
discuss an approach to address those challenges
through sophisticated real-time data aggregation and
analytics.
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