Drilling For Mud

Imagine 30,000 Amazonian tribesmen carousing along the street, waving their spears and whooping at the top of their voices in celebration.

They’d taken the petrochemical company Chevron to court and won huge and unprecedented damages.

For over twenty years Texaco, now a Chevron subsidiary, had dumped hazardous waste from its oil drilling enterprise into open lakes of effluent.

Toxins seeped into the groundwater and poisoned over 1,500 square miles used to live and farm by local indians and settlers. Now they’d got payback.
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Site Review: Regal Petroleum

As usual, I’ve limited myself to only 15 minutes looking at this site, much less time that I would ordinarily take to review a site, but still have a few comments about things that immediately strike me.

There are several good features about this site, such as the provision of biographies for senior management as well as board members, and the filter feature in the press releases section to help the visitor find what they need, but I have a few suggestions as well:
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Provide analyst estimates for a level playing field

Are you sharing information with your retail investors as well as your professional ones?

Institutional investors should already know the market expectations, but providing analyst estimates on your website enables retail shareholders to consider their options with the same information to hand. Surprisingly, this isn’t done on many corporate sites, though the numbers are increasing. Examples of those that do provide such forecasts are Prudential, Carphone Warehouse and Petrobras. All provide a variety of different measures.

But why not go a step further, and provide an automated feed of broker forecast information? This would mean that your investors can have the latest information very easily - and don’t have to keep returning to your site.

RWE does this very neatly: they provide broker forecast information on their site in some detail, and have archives going back to 2003. If requested, they will email the latest information out to you every 2-3 weeks.

I think that is a great service.

Best Practices Review: Chemoil

Time for another quick review: 15 minutes to assess Chemoil’s corporate website.

There is much to be commended in this site. Chemoil includes a number of items that many other companies fail to include, such as: video, podcast, webcast, a glossary, FAQs, third party comment, a sitemap, biographies of both board members and management, a dedicated shareholder page, details on insider trades and a good explanation of their business and strategy - as well as a great deal of other information.

However, the site overall does have a few flaws, and I have some suggestions for improvement. Read the rest of this article …

8 ways of charting your share price (or not)

Ever wondered what everyone else was using to chart their share price? Here are eight different ways of charting the share price.

Many if not most FTSE 100 companies now provide interactive share charting facilities, so that visitors can see the trend over the last day, week, month … or whatever period interests them.

Some companies provide the option to compare the performance of their stock with indices and sector - perhaps the FTSE or equivalent, or a set of related companies.

A subset of these companies make it easy to compare their own performance with that of their direct competition. For example, Roche make it easy to see how they are doing compared to Bayer, or Pfizer, GSK or AstraZeneca (among several others).

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