• Editorial

  Decommissioning – will the time ever be right?

  • 12 12月 2017

  The North Sea faces a decommissioning bill of US$32 billion between 2018 and 2022, but does the supply chain have an appetite to make the investment needed?

• Featured

  Corporate upstream: 5 things to look for in 2018

  • 14 12月 2017

  At the outset, 2018 seems to be a year full of opportunity for upstream companies. After three years of fighting to survive the price collapse, companies are ready to deliver and to continue rebuild in anticipation of a new era of lower prices. We identify five key strategic themes for the new year that point to a turning point in the evolution from 'survive' to 'thrive'.

• The Edge

  Where are the tight oil plays outside the US?

  • 12 12月 2017

  What are the prospects for tight oil outside the US? It's a question frequently asked on my travels, and with good reason. If US tight oil can emerge so quickly to disrupt the market, perhaps other plays out there might have the same effect.

• Editorial

  Reviving Asia Pacific exploration activity

  • 04 12月 2017

  Ashima Taneja discusses exploration results in Asia Pacific in 2017 and highlights the key wells to watch in 2018 with Angus Rodger, Research Director and Matthew Howell, Senior Analyst.

• The Edge

  Asia upstream’s strategic challenges

  • 28 11月 2017

  Visiting Asia this month was an opportunity to gauge how oil and gas companies there are faring.

• The Edge

  In search of fiscal ‘win-win’ to spur upstream investment

  • 21 11月 2017

  Why feeding the dog can undermine trust in the oil industry

• The Edge

  How the Majors will emerge stronger from the downturn

  • 14 11月 2017

  Low oil prices, severe financial stretch, even moments of existential contemplation – it’s hardly been the right environment for successful business development.

• The Edge

  Growing pains – diminishing returns from tight oil wells

  • 07 11月 2017

  US tight oil’s second phase of growth is well underway. We expect tight oil production to double from 4.7 million b/d today to around 9.5 million b/d in the mid-2020s – and our view is by no means the most bullish.

• Editorial

  New licensing rounds, upstream reform and the investment outlook

  • 30 6月 2017

  Our Asia Pacific upstream research team discusses the latest regional oil and gas developments, focusing on recent exploration licensing round announcements and the outlook for pre-FID projects in Asia.

• Editorial

  Everything is faster in the Permian - including decline rates

  • 11 12月 2018

  Listen to Crude For Thought, episode 43: Everything is faster in the Permian - including decline rates

• The Edge

  How to stop Nigeria’s oil industry losing relevance

  • 04 12月 2018

  What would it take to make Nigeria's oil industry competitive again? Simon Flowers investigates.

• Opinion

  Revisiting the deepwater cost curve

  • 27 11月 2018

  Falling costs and rising production are reshaping the deepwater market. Costs will stay low until 2020, after which cost inflation could bite. How will the industry respond?

• Editorial

  The digital imperative: why upstream oil and gas is embracing advanced analytics

  • 16 5月 2019

  Where and how is digitalisation likely to impact upstream oil and gas? In our latest research, we take a closer look at the huge prizes on offer at every stage of the upstream lifecycle.

• Opinion

  Collaboration in the Carnarvon Basin

  • 04 11月 2018

  Can big players in the Carnarvon Basin lose the ego and play nice for the greater good of Australian LNG?

• Editorial

  A new era for unconventional value

  • 30 11月 2018

  Project Production Management could reduce unconventional well cost and cycle time by more than 25%

• The Edge

  What’s holding back a new investment cycle?

  • 02 10月 2018

  Despite strong financial performance for the 48 IOCs and NOCs covered in our Corporate Service this year, investment activity is weak. Simon Flowers and Norman Valentine discuss.

• Opinion

  US tight oil piles pressure on refiners

  • 01 10月 2018

  Alan Gelder looks at the ways in which US tight oil has revolutionised the global oil market. This article first appeared on Forbes.com on September 27, 2018.

• The Edge

  The case for investing more in exploration

  • 25 9月 2018

  The industry isn’t finding enough oil. We need more Guyanas, a lot more, and we need them soon. Without them, the oil market is in danger of tightening in the not too distant future.

• Editorial

  Electric vehicles – the story so far

  • 10 10月 2018

  How will the rise of electric vehicles impact the future of transport and the natural resources industry? In 2018, our experts have been exploring what that means for oil, metals and power markets around the world.

• Editorial

  How private equity is revitalising offshore exploration and production

  • 01 10月 2018

  Private equity is revitalising offshore exploration and production, with smaller operators bringing new life to the US Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea and Brazil. Get the latest analysis here.

• The Edge

  Guyana - a new planet in oil’s solar system

  • 18 9月 2018

  The discovery of a major new oil play like Guyana instils a sense of wonder in we oil industry devotees. What’s the story? How big could it be? Will it change the oil market? Simon takes on these questions and more.

• Editorial

  What the surge in oil-basis hedges tells us about Permian operators

  • 11 9月 2018

  Permian producers increased their 2020 oil-basis hedge positions by 431% in Q2 2018. What does the surge in oil-basis hedges tell us about Permian operator sentiment? And what is the implication for projects due to start up in 2019? Find out in our latest analysis of oil and gas hedging activity.

• Opinion

  Dorado: Australia's biggest oil discovery this century

  • 17 8月 2018

  Exploration in Western Australia has produced a result no one expected - a large commercial oil find, Australia's largest this century. The discovery is significant for block partners Quadrant and Carnarvon, but how they will monetise it remains to be seen. Senior Research Analyst for Oceania Upstream, Daniel Toleman, explores the options and outcomes.

• Featured

  6 forces driving improved upstream project delivery

  • 13 8月 2018

  What can the industry do to give their projects the best chance of being delivered successfully? Our analysis points to six key factors that in most recent cases combined to create better execution.

• The Edge

  Securing exposure to Permian tight oil – Part 2

  • 10 7月 2018

  US tight oil's growth prospects are attracting the attention of any number of upstream companies. But new entrants need to go in with their eyes wide open - it's a very different business model to conventional E&P. In Part 2 of our assessment of buying into tight oil we look at the technical, logistical and valuation pitfalls.

• The Edge

  What should the E&P sector do with a wall of cash?

  • 19 6月 2018

  The biggest lottery prize of 2018? A contender is the windfall oil and gas companies find drops into their bank account.

• Editorial

  Australasia - Five themes to look out for in 2019

  • 19 12月 2018

  As 2018 draws to a close, Wood Mackenzie's experts discusses five key themes to look out for in Australasia's oil and gas industry in 2019.

• Comment

  Chevron loses second major production asset in South East Asia

  • 13 12月 2018

  Following today's announcement by Thailand's Department of Mineral Fuels (DMF) that PTTEP has won the auction round for both G1/61 (Erawan) and G2/61 (Bongkot) PSCs after putting an aggressive bid on the gas price and the profit share, Wood Mackenzie's research analyst Jean-Baptiste Berchoteau shares some insights.

• Comment

  US sanctions increase pressure on Venezuela

  • 30 1月 2019

  The US is poised to impose fresh sanctions on Venezuela, ratcheting up the stakes in the country's political crisis by curbing the Maduro government's access to cash from crude exports.

• Comment

  New opportunity in UK North Sea with Greater Buchan Area round

  • 31 1月 2019

  The Oil & Gas Authority's (OGA) decision to launch the 31st supplementary offshore licensing round, focusing on the Greater Buchan Area offers a material opportunity for players active in the UK North Sea