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2001
2001
2001



News & Press Releases
2000

October 2, 2000
Petroleum trading tops $1 billion on HoustonStreet Exchange
"Company responds to user feedback and prepares for more trader activity"
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September 18, 2000
Leading energy exchanges and solutions providers establish XML standards consortium for Web-based energy trading industry
"Open communication standards to facilitate trade information exchange, streamline trade data management and boost energy trading efficiency."
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September 18, 2000
HoustonStreet Exchange to launch new, Web-based, pan-European energy trading platform backed by large industry players
"Electrabel, RWE and Vattenfall invest in platform to trade energy products and serve as part of e-commerce strategy."
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September 7, 2000
Conoco and HoustonStreet form joint venture to streamline the way energy companies do business
"New company to automate mid- and back-office energy trading activities based on Conoco's COIN technology and HoustonStreet's e-commerce expertise."
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August 2, 2000
HoustonStreet Selects OptiMark To Enhance How Energy Trades Online
"HoustonStreet plans to incorporate OptiMark's patented matching engine technology into its gas, power, crude oil and refined products exchanges."
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August 1 , 2000
HoustonStreet joins OASIS to drive XML standards for wholesale energy trading industry
"Internationally recognized structured information standards consortium to provide open standards development expertise "
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July 5, 2000
HoustonStreet Exchange wins CIO's Web business 50/50 award for online excellence
"HoustonStreet.com chosen for site design and functionality aimed at meeting energy traders' needs"
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July 1, 2000
HoustonStreet.com: Phone Free Trading
"HoustonStreet.com's business model is simple: provide a better way for traders to initiate and complete energy trades."
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June 26, 2000
Oil trading heats up on HoustonStreet.com
"Traders buy and sell approximately $275 million in crude oil since launch."
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June 1, 2000
IT Support News
"We want to provide the online energy exchange of the future and to do that we need a broad integration vision."
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May 25, 2000
Internet Week
"What makes HoustonStreet stand apart from the flood of energy exchanges, is the..."
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May 22, 2000
HoustonStreet Exchange goes live with Web-based exchanges for crude oil, refined products and a new "SpeedWay" floor for electricity
"HoustonStreet.com brings efficiency to oil industry by allowing traders to see real-time pricing and market information and trade with a click of the mouse."
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May 22, 2000
Utility Business: HoustonStreet.com Expands
"It is one of the first fully Web-based exchanges for trading crude oil and refined products."
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April 17, 2000
Conoco invests in HoustonStreet Exchange to expand web-based trading of energy commoditites.
"Global energy company commits money, trading volume and strategic guidance to HoustonStreet.com's crude oil, refined products and natural gas trading platforms"
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April 10, 2000
HoustonStreet to accelerate Internet-based energy trading by adding natural gas exchange
"Simplifies complex market by giving traders the information they need to buy and sell natural gas more effectively"
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April 6, 2000
HoustonStreet.com announces investment from kRoad Ventures and Vivendi
"Deal to bring online energy commodity trading to Europe and beyond."
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March 23, 2000
HoustonStreet weaves new round of investments and strategic partnerships into its "web for the Web"
"Thomas H. Lee Company, Sapient, Bowstreet and others bring financial, marketing and B2B Internet savvy to Web-based wholesale energy exchange."
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March 8 , 2000
Williams invests in HoustonStreet Exchange to support adoption of web based energy trading

"Williams Energy Marketing & Trading Co. buys into future of online wholesale energy trading."
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February 10, 2000
The Desk

"In less than a years time HoustonStreet Exchange has unquestionable joined the ranks of companies that are truly redefining the energy business."
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February 8 , 2000
HoustonStreet Exchange to launch new web-based oil trading exchange backed by large industry players

"Joint trading arm for Shell Oil, Texaco and Saudi Aramco invest in platform and registers to by and sell crude and refined products."
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January 12, 2000
Megawatt Daily

"HoustonStreet's SpeedWay will be for trades of firm peak power in blocks of 25MW or 50 MW depending on the standard for particular region."
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January 11 , 2000
HoustonStreet SpeedWay provides a faster, more powerful, trading platform for power traders
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"New power trading floor on HoustonStreet.com benefits traders who buy and sell larger volumes of power at active trading hubs."
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