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The Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI) family of newsletters is published by Intelligence Press Inc., an independent energy publishing company headquartered in Sterling, VA, with offices in Houston and Portland, OR. Intelligence Press, Inc. has been reporting on the natural gas marketplace since 1981 when it first published Natural Gas Intelligence, the weekly gas market newsletter. NGI's other publications include: NGI's Weekly Gas Price Index and Bidweek Survey (started in 1988); NGI's Daily Gas Price Index (1993); and Power Market Today (2001). NGI has also hosted the annual GasMart conference and trade show for 20 years and has recently started hosting natural gas futures hedging workshops in New York. NGI also publishes natural gas pipeline, infrastructure and storage maps as well as a natural gas and power glossary. NGI's website at intelligencepress.com is updated throughout the business day with the latest natural gas and power news and market commentary. In addition to its staff of full-time journalists in Virginia, Houston and Portland, NGI has correspondents based in Los Angeles, Denver and Alberta. NGI is considered a woman-owned business under federal guidelines since the founder and principal owner is Ellen Beswick. NGI began publishing the industry's first natural gas price survey in 1983 when natural gas first began to trade competitively. The voluntary survey and NGI's methodology has evolved with the market from reporting in the beginning simply a weekly range of prices in the five major production areas to the current reporting of daily, weekly and monthly (bidweek) price ranges, averages, volumes and number of deals at nearly 100 locations across the United States and Canada. NGI operates under the journalism code of ethics, which requires that the personnel creating and compiling the content of our publications and management have no financial interest in the companies on which they report. NGI also warrants that its editorial and price survey employees and management do not trade in the natural gas commodity market, nor in any paper market relating to the natural gas commodity market. Also, as journalists, NGI employees strive to maintain the highest standards of truth, accuracy, fairness and impartiality. This means double-checking facts, correcting errors as soon as possible, and striving to tell all sides of a story as equally as possible. This high level of journalistic integrity extends to the prices it publishes and in May of 2004 NGI was named as one of several publishers to be in "substantial compliance" with the standards set forth in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Policy Statement on Natural Gas and Electric Price Indices. NGI continues to refine its processes for price data collection and archival as well as for index calculation and dissemination. Furthermore, NGI price-setting processes are subject to an annual external audit and results of that audit will be posted on its website in the fourth quarter of 2006. NGI's price-setting methodology is available at intelligencepress.com In compiling its voluntary price surveys, NGI continuously works on soliciting the broadest possible participation from those who buy or sell natural gas in the wholesale marketplace. Currently, NGI receives gas price data from nearly all the top 20 trading companies and a vast majority of the top 50. Statistics on the breadth of data utilized in NGI's price surveys is available online. In return for the cooperation of its data providers, NGI pledges -- subject to required governmental disclosure -- to maintain the confidentiality of the data that is submitted. 
Sterling, VAEllen Beswick, Chief Editor and
publisher, founded Intelligence Press in 1981 with the
first issue of Natural Gas Intelligence. Before that she
served as associate editor of London Oil Reports and as
a general and political reporter for United Press
International, the Boston Herald, and American Metal
Markets. She has a B.A. in English from Wilson College,
Chambersburg, PA.
Dexter Steis, Executive Publisher,
joined the staff of NGI's Gas Price Index in l995. He
received his bachelor's degree in Business
Administration with a concentration in Finance from the
University of New Hampshire.
Susan Parker, Senior Editor, joined
the staff of NGI in l994. Prior to that she reported
for Natural Gas Week and The Oil Daily
in Washington D.C. and for the Energy Reporter
in Houston. She received her bachelor's degree from
Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA.
Alexander B. Steis, Managing Editor,
joined the staff of NGI in June of 2000. He received his
bachelor's degree in Business Management from Syracuse
University in New York in May of 2000.
David Bradley, Associate Editor, joined
the staff of NGI in June, 2007 following eight years of news
reporting for Northern Virginia newspapers and more than a dozen years
in the telecommunications industry. He received his bachelor's degree
in Communications and English from James Madison University in
Harrisonburg, VA., and his master's degree in Information Management
from Marymount University in Arlington, VA.
James Geanakos, Marketing & Sales Director.
Houston, TXRoger
Tanner, Markets Editor, Houston, has been compiling
the market report for the NGI's Gas Price Index and
contributing to NGI since March, l988. He had earlier
worked for the Shreveport (LA) Times, Houston
Chronicle, Pennwell Publications' Offshore
Magazine and Gas Daily. He has a bachelor's
degree from Louisiana State University in journalism.
Joe Fisher, Senior Editor, was
a member of the Intelligence Press editorial staff from
December 1995 until April 2000. He returned to Intelligence
Press December 2005. During his absence, he was the editor
of Hart Energy Publishing's "Energy Markets"
magazine. Nearly 11 of Joe's 18 years of reporting/writing
have been spent in the energy industry. He also has worked
for daily newspapers in Louisiana and Ohio, covering, at
various times, business, education, features and
entertainment. He has a bachelor of arts degree in
journalism from Kent State University in Ohio.
Carolyn L. Davis, Senior Editor,
joined the editorial staff of Intelligence Press Inc. in
Houston in May, 2000. Prior to that, she covered regulatory
issues for environmental and occupational safety and health
publications. She also has worked as a reporter for several
daily newspapers in Texas, including the Waco
Tribune-Herald, the Temple Daily Telegram and the Killeen
Daily Herald. She attended Texas A&M University and received
a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University
of Houston.
Portland, ORMark Curran, Managing Price Editor,
joined the staff of NGI's Gas Price Index in l994. He
received his bachelor's degree in Finance and Economics from
American University and he has a masters in Energy and
Environmental Economics from Scuola Superiore Enrico Mattei,
Milan, Italy.
Los Angeles, CARichard Nemec, West Coast Correspondent
in Los Angeles, began writing for NGI in 1995 and has 30
years experience in the energy industry. He holds BA from
the University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and a MA
in journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL;
and completed MBA courses at Northwestern's Evening Graduate
School of Management.
Note: Our editorial staff is also supplemented by the work of contributing journalists in other parts of the United States and Canada. |