Energy & Industrials

The GLG Energy & Industrials practice provides access to a global network of over 30,000 industry professionals across the transportation, industrials, and natural resources sectors.

These Council Members include former managers of specific assets and business units, engineers, asset valuation experts, consultants, specialized market research firms, product purchasers, sales managers and distributors.

Leading Experts on Energy & Industrials

Thomas Shewski

Owner
High Energy Services

Thomas Shewski is the Owner of High Energy Services, a firm providing fuel, transportation, emissions, and power plant services to existing and proposed generating plants. Mr. Shewski is currently involved in buying fuel, transportation, and emissions...

Dennis Fagerstone

Consultant
Dennis Fagerstone

Dennis Fagerstone is an independent consultant in the oil and gas industry. Prior, Mr. Fagerstone was an Executive Vice President of International Operations at Pioneer Natural Resources. He began as Executive Vice President following the August 1997...

Ron Turi

Owner and Principal
Element 3 Battery Venture, LLC

Ron Turi is the Owner of Element 3 Battery Venture, an advanced, large-format, lithium ion battery manufacturing company. Mr. Turi has more than 20 years of experience in product development for packaging materials, imaging products and lithium batteries...

David Faulkner

President
Decisive Management Professionals International (DMPI), LLC

David Faulkner is the Founder and President of Decisive Management Professionals International (DMPI); a defense consulting firm focused on solving Department of Defense (DOD) strategic and operational targeting issues, ranging from operational art and...

Gary Castellaw

President
Premier Financial & Consulting Group

Gary Castellaw is the President of Premier Financial & Consulting LLC, a management consulting and services company. The firm specializes in the energy, industrial and agricultural chemicals, fertilizer, seed, biofuels, equipment and transportation industries....

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GLG Study Groups in Energy & Industrials(?)

Study Group Name	No. Members
Building Materials Industry Experts	2005
Mining Experts	1474
Utilities and Power Generation Industry Experts (EU)	1122
Transportation Managers (North America)	877
Airline and Aerospace Industry Experts: GLG Leaders and Scholars	610

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GLG News^SM Analyses in Energy & Industrials(?)

Analyses are solely the work of the authors and have not been edited or endorsed by GLG.

Pollock front and center again, despite no one knowing why

November 20, 2009

Analysis by:James Aliucci, President,

Analysis of:Pollock quotas likely to drop again | www.publicbroadcasting.net

The latest prediction on the Total Allowable Catch totals for the USA pollock industry for 2010 appear to be solidly in favor of lowering them once again. This makes Greenpeace happy (not really) but is bad news for the industry as a whole. Jobs will be lost, companies may be headed for continued hard times. Yet most consumers of fish say, so what, I never eat pollock. How wrong they are.

Commodity Index Funds to Change Asset Allocations - Big Corn Changes

November 20, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Analysis of:Dow Jones-UBS Announce New Target Weights For Commodity Index | www.djindexes.com

DJ / UBS announced changes in their commodity index allocations. The new allocations will likely push corn much higher, and the oil refining spread narrower.

Terra In Play, not the End Game

November 20, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Analysis of:End Game at Terra | dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com

Far from "the End Game" as reported by NYTimes author, the CF vote is more likely the beginning of an auction for Terra.

Emerging Trends in Intelligent Transportation Systems

November 20, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Analysis of:"State of Transition" | content.yudu.com

Linking to my own recent article in the launch issue of Thinking Transit discussing ITS trends for the coming decade (at p. 8 of online version linked above).

A turnaround for Aries?

November 20, 2009

Analysis by:Diran Majarian, Managing Director,

Analysis of:Aries rebuilding | www.tradewinds.no

New CEO Michael Zolotas and CFO Allan Shaw recently gave a presentation of their plans to turn around Aries Maritime (RAMS) and use it as a platform for growth. They talked about recapitalization, fleet mix, in-house technical management, chartering strategy, steamlined GA costs and the new management team. Their new focus is on dry cargo and product trades. They have dropped in six additional units from GrandUnion and recapitalized with US$ 36 equity and US$ 182 mio new debt. Let's evaluate.

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GLG Live Meetings in Energy & Industrials(?)

Upcoming Seminars

November 24, 2009 | Hong Kong

Seminar: Environmental Risks and Opportunities Arising from China's Environmental Crisis (Hong Kong)

December 2, 2009 | San Francisco

Seminar: Global Steel Update – Outlook for 2010 (San Francisco)

December 7, 2009 | New York

Seminar: Is Algae a Viable Technology for Energy Solution? (New York)

December 8, 2009 | Boston

Seminar: Is Algae a Viable Technology for Energy Solution? (Boston)

December 9, 2009 | Chicago

Seminar: Is Algae a Viable Technology for Energy Solution? (Chicago)

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GLG Webcasts

GLG Webcast: Brazilian Ethanol & Biofuels - September 23, 2008 at 2:00 PM EDT/11:00 AM PDT

09/23/2008

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GLG Webcast: Battery Market - October 22, 2008 at 2:00 PM EDT/11:00 AM PDT

10/22/2008

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GLG Webcast: Solar Power - January 30, 2009 at 2:00PM EST/11:00AM PST

01/30/2009

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GLG Webcast: Influenza A/H1N1 – US Pork Consumption and Exports – May 5, 2009 3:00 PM ET/12:00 PM PT

05/05/2009

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GLG Webcast: Truck Hybrid Powertrain Systems - May 27, 2009 2:00 PM ET/11:00 PM PT

05/27/2009

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