Docklands nears 20% of Melbourne’s Prime Market

Docklands nears 20% of Melbourne’s Prime Market

MELBOURNE, 8 August 2012 - The Docklands precinct is now larger than Melbourne’s Eastern Core and is the second largest office precinct for prime grade stock in the Melbourne CBD. According to Jones Lang LaSalle Research, Melbourne’s CBD office market is 4.27 million square meters of which 2.44 million square meters are prime grade.

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How to Calculate Net Revenue Interest for Oil & Gas

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How to Calculate Net Revenue Interest for Oil & Gas
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Net revenue interest is defined as a share of oil or gas production that is calculated after deducting any burdens from the working interest. For example, an oil well typically has a mineral rights owner and an overriding royalty owner. These owners receive a flat percentage "off the top," so to speak, of the well proceeds. The remaining owners are known as working interest owners. Each owns a working interest percentage of the well proceeds. Each must calculate her net revenue interest in production.

Drought strains U.S. oil production

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Drought strains U.S. oil production
By Steve Hargreaves @CNNMoney July 31, 2012: 4:55 AM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- One of the worst droughts in U.S. history is hampering oil production, pitting farmers against oilmen and highlighting just how dependent on water modern U.S. energy development has become.

Directional drilling

Directional drilling

Directional drilling (or slant drilling) is the practice for drilling non-vertical wells. It can be broken down into three main groups: Oilfield Directional Drilling, Utility Installation Directional Drilling (or H.D.D. or Horizontal Directional Drilling) Directional boring, and SIS (surface In Seam), which horizontally intersects a vertical well target to extract coal bed methane.

Finance·Money, Albert Einstein

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Frankfurt office market with solid rental performance at the half-year point

Frankfurt office market with solid rental performance at the half-year point
5 Jul, 2012, Frankfurt

• Rental performance in the Frankfurt office space market at the long-term average in the first half of 2012
• 224,000 sq. m rented by the end of June
• High-end lease prices stable
• Vacancy rates fall

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Blackstone nears $13 billion real estate fund target: sources

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Blackstone nears $13 billion real estate fund target: sources

By Greg Roumeliotis and Ilaina Jonas
NEW YORK | Fri Jun 29, 2012 2:14pm EDT

(Reuters) - Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) has raised more than $12 billion for its latest real estate fund, its biggest yet, putting it within reach of its $13 billion fundraising target, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Top 100 Commingled Real Estate Funds

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Top 100 Commingled Real Estate Funds
Based on filings by SEC-registered advisors as of March 31

Domestic Critics Slow Potential LNG Export Boom

Domestic Critics Slow Potential LNG Export Boom

Published: Wednesday, 20 Jun 2012 | 9:35 AM ET
By: Constance Gustke, | Special to CNBC.com

Heated debate over the impact of liquefied natural gas exports on domestic prices is threatening to derail them at a crucial time for the U.S. industry.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/47279981

Top US Managers of Real Estate Funds

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Top US Managers of Real Estate Funds
Based on gross assets managed by SEC-registered advisors. Figures adjusted for J.P. Morgan and estimated for two nonregistered advisors:
Shorenstein Properties and Westbrook Partners.