Any thoughts of an Indian summer were banished on Tuesday when torrential rain blasted the City of London.  The downpour failed to dampen spirits at oilbarrel.com’s 28th conference, however, which again attracted record numbers of delegates. This was a packed conference card, with seven companies presenting their stories to a canny crowd of deal-making industry execs, bargain-hungry investors and enterprising financiers.

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