Date: 2010-04-14
Name(s): Campbell, Helen
Description: Many of the world 's key producing fields are now maturing or are seriously depleted, and the continued demand for new oil and gas supplies means governments and companies are looking to new, and often completely unknown, regions to replace reserves.
Date: 2008-10-21
Description: The global enterprise applications market grew 9.5% over 2006 to about $30bn in 2007. Widespread broadband usage and development of programming technology that enables fast downloads is driving the industry towards web based on-demand applications.
Date: 2009-03-06
Description: The IVD market continues to grow at a steady pace, driven by new fields such as molecular diagnostics and a growing consumer awareness surrounding disease management. With an increased focus on emerging markets high levels of growth are forecast.
Date: 2008-10-01
Description: The US subprime crisis has led to market turbulence and will have a key impact on insurance companies, curbing growth in the life insurance market, while pricing pressures and economic slowdown will depress the non-life insurance market.
Date: 2008-07-07
Description: The global retail banking market was worth $3,026bn in 2007, of which the top 10 banks accounted for 19.8%. The US subprime mortgage crisis, expansion of direct and online banking and cross-border consolidation are key driving forces of change.
Date: 2008-05-22
Description: The global telecom services market grew at a CAGR of 11.4% over the period 2002-2006 to reach $1,785bn in 2006. Growth in emerging markets and increased demand for broadband and 3G services are the major drivers of the market.
Date: 2011-03-21
Description: The global ultrasound market has reached saturation. However, innovations in organ-specific imaging and the introduction of elastography features for cancer detection are creating niche markets for ultrasound.
Date: 2010-07-08
Description: Oil sands, shale gas, oil shale, and coalbed methane (CBM) are the primary unconventional oil and gas resources in the world today. Sustained high oil and gas prices until mid-2008 led to the development of these resources.
Date: 2011-01-06
Description: The US electric transmission and distribution network is a complex composition of lines that traverse around 365,000 circuit miles to supply electricity to the nation.
Date: 2011-01-05
Description: The US cumulative installed power generation capacity grew at a CAGR of 2.9% during 1998-2008, mainly driven by 10 states. These states accounted for 52% of the total growth in cumulative installed power generation capacity in the US during 1998-2008
Date: 2011-05-24
Description: The way in which video games are played is being fundamentally changed by the convergence of technologies and gaming platforms, demographic shifts, demand for quick, easy and cheap games, and technological advancements.
Date: 2009-08-10
Description: The global video gaming market is expected to be worth $76.1bn in 2013. In the future the market will be driven primarily by online and mobile gaming formats, which in turn are being driven by increasing internet, broadband and mobile penetrations.
Date: 2006-12-14
Description: European electricity demand was volatile through 2005, with some countries seeing slight declines in demand. However, the longer term forecast is continued growth for the Western European electricity market as new power plants come on-stream.
Date: 2008-10-07
Description: European electricity demand was volatile through 2007, with some countries seeing slight declines in demand. However, the longer term forecast is continued growth for the Western European electricity market as new power plants come on-stream.
Date: 2009-07-01
Description: European electricity demand was volatile through 2008, with some countries seeing slight declines in demand. However, the longer term forecast is continued growth for the Western European electricity market as new power plants come on-stream.
