The run up to the 2007 full-market opening in Europe will continue to feed consolidation momentum in the EU. Around the globe, increased competition is driving companies to turn to MA activities to deliver growth horizontally and vertically. High wholesale power, gas and carbon prices also are creating new platforms for deal activity, pushing up generation asset values and bolstering the rationale for deal prices. As we look ahead, we can expect to see greater integration of upstream and downstream entities and more moves by the mega-players. The attitude of the competition authorities will be critical to future deals.
Quotes about downstream (14 Quotes)
I think the markets will begin pricing in the downstream investments during 2007.
We have to maintain the water flow downstream, and we have to maintain the lake elevation. When you pull out the amount that went for agriculture, we feel that we'd be able to do that. Unfortunately, the farmers are squeezed in the middle.
When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift.
I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.
We would not have had the ability to regulate these flows, we would have been in real trouble. The downstream impacts would have been much more severe than they are at present.
Since the Industrial Revolution began, going downstream - investing inbusinesses that will benefit from new technology rather than investingin the technology companies themselves - has often been the smarterstrategy.
The question is, are there differences in the neuroD2 gene-coding sequence or differences downstream of the neuroD2 pathway during brain development that could affect either psychiatric or emotional functions in humans It's a completely unexplored question, ... the immediate next question you would go to if you want to understand how this gene impacts human behavior.
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.
We have reached agreement on passing on the cost downstream.
I am especially delighted with the growth in oil and gas production and the quality of the downstream performance. All of this has given us the ability to increase the dividend,
China will take into consideration the concerns and interests of the countries downstream of the rivers whenever it takes action in the upper stream,
We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.