• Opinion

  Subsurface: 5 things to look for in 2025

  • 23 1月 2025

  Upstream and geothermal exploration: deepwater wildcats, acreage additions, advantaged basins and unlocking geothermal resources.

• Opinion

  Horizons podcast: The Great Reopening

  • 30 3月 2023

  On the podcast today, we look at the possible pathways to growth for the Chinese economy, and the impact of its reopening on energy supply, markets and prices.

• Opinion

  Sub Saharan Africa upstream: 5 things to look for in 2024

  • 08 1月 2024

  Sub Saharan Africa upstream will be firing on all cylinders in 2024. Exploration, particularly the deepwater Atlantic margin, will remain strong with several big wells planned in Namibia, Angola, Congo and Equatorial Guinea.

• Opinion

  Asia Pacific upstream: 5 things to look for in 2024

  • 08 1月 2024

  Exploration, project sanctions, CCUS legislation and more.

• Opinion

  Middle East and North Africa upstream: 5 things to look for in 2024

  • 10 1月 2024

  With COP28 recently completed in the UAE, there is elevated interest in progressing diverse clean energy strategies in the MENA region.

• Opinion

  North Sea upstream: 5 things to look for in 2024

  • 08 1月 2024

  Fiscal and political uncertainty will weigh on the UK upstream sector, Norway will continue to grow and Denmark will ramp up gas production.

• Opinion

  Latin America upstream: 5 things to look for in 2024

  • 10 1月 2024

  Deepwater growth will continue to be a dominant theme in Latin America.

• Opinion

  US Gulf of Mexico: 5 things to look for in 2025

  • 07 1月 2025

  With a new administration and refreshed focus on domestic production growth set to take effect in January, the regulatory future looks bright.

• Opinion

  Latin America: 5 things to look for in 2025

  • 07 1月 2025

  The Latin America upstream sector will continue with its successful track record of expanding production but will also face challenges in 2025.

• Opinion

  Continental Europe upstream: 5 things to look for in 2025

  • 07 1月 2025

  Continental Europe is intensifying efforts to bolster energy security through increased gas production.

• Opinion

  North Sea upstream: 5 things to look for in 2025

  • 07 1月 2025

  After the fallout and uncertainty around the UK windfall tax, companies and government may put their differences aside and agree on an EPL successor.

• Opinion

  North America gas: 5 things to look for in 2025

  • 05 1月 2025

  After a challenging 2024 for North American natural gas will 2025 see renewed growth? 

• Opinion

  Canada upstream: 4 things to look for in 2025

  • 07 1月 2025

  Canada's production growth carries on. But there are important nuances underneath total volume numbers.

• Opinion

  Reducing the emissions of US LNG: looking for ways to move the needle

  • 01 5月 2021

  Wood Mackenzie’s Ed Crooks recently highlighted the increased scrutiny placed on the carbon footprint of US LNG by the Biden administration, and the importance of proving the “green” credentials of LNG export projects. Rising awareness of the climate implications of LNG is a rapidly growing globa...

• Opinion

  Trump's art of the OPEC deal

  • 13 4月 2020

  In this episode of our Asia-Pacific energy podcast, we discuss this weekend's OPEC agreement.

• Opinion

  Will Namibia become a major deepwater oil producer?

  • 22 11月 2023

  New discoveries make the Orange Sub-basin the world’s hottest oil and gas exploration play

• Opinion

  Coronavirus and China’s jittery commodity markets

  • 04 2月 2020

  The WHO has announced that the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), first detected in Wuhan, is now a ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’. As of February 4, there are over 20,000 cases of 2019-nCoV confirmed globally, the vast majority within China.

• Opinion

  China’s re-opening off to a stuttering start

  • 12 1月 2023

  Wood Mackenzie's APAC team looks at China’s re-opening and what it means for energy sector investment.

• Opinion

  How Asia’s NOCs can learn to stop worrying and love the energy transition

  • 28 1月 2020

  All oil and gas companies are in a state of flux. Driven by the energy transition, upstream supply must now be low cost, low risk and, increasingly, lower carbon. Lenders and shareholders seek clear strategies on emissions reduction, while still expecting the returns that attracted them to oil and gas companies in the first place.

• Opinion

  Is Northeast Asia finally tackling its coal dependency as air quality deteriorates?

  • 14 1月 2020

  As 2019 ended, I visited clients in Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei and was struck by how rapidly concern over emissions has escalated and is now driving energy policy change. I believe this trend could accelerate in 2020, with important implications for companies and the fuel mix across the region.

• Opinion

  MENA upstream: 2019 in review – and a look ahead

  • 07 1月 2020

  In this episode of the MENA in Brief podcast, Ian Thom and his expert guests look at 2019 in review, and share their view on what lies ahead in 2020.

• Opinion

  The Asia energy market outlook for 2020

  • 06 1月 2020

  A new year, a new decade and a lot of uncertainty across Asia’s energy markets. To kick off 2020 I spoke to several WoodMac analysts in the region to hear their predictions for the coming 12 months. I hope their thinking might surprise you!

• Opinion

  Rebooting what’s possible in India’s gas and LNG market

  • 07 11月 2019

  India is something of a conundrum for global LNG players. I recently returned from a week in Delhi, just as the capital was making headlines for one of the worst episodes of air pollution, while the country’s energy mix remains dominated by cheap domestic coal.

• Opinion

  The Russian energy transition: what makes it different

  • 25 10月 2019

  The Russian energy transition: analysis from our upstream research team. Understand the uniquely Russian approach to the energy transition and the risks and opportunities that presents.

• Opinion

  What are the implications of the attacks on Saudi oil facilities?

  • 30 9月 2019

  In this episode of the Middle East and North Africa In Brief podcast, Ian Thom, Stewart Williams, Tor Soltvedt and Norman Valentine discuss the attack on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities in September.

• Opinion

  Why North-west Europe needs more regasification capacity

  • 18 12月 2019

  North-west Europe needs more regasification capacity – both to meet the region’s growing demand, and to soak up surplus volumes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the future, new research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie shows.

• Opinion

  Can biomethane decarbonise Europe’s gas market?

  • 23 9月 2020

  Europe is the leading global producer of the net-zero carbon renewable gas, but continued growth depends on policy support

• Opinion

  Power of Siberia begins gas supply to China (and why it’s ok for LNG)

  • 16 12月 2019

  On December 2 Russian gas officially flowed into China with the start-up of the Power of Siberia (PoS) pipeline. The project, which will ultimately see 38 bcm a year delivered under a US$400 billion, 30-year contract, will elevate China to become Gazprom’s second largest export market and support Beijing’s goals of energy import diversification and security.

• Opinion

  LNG’s short-term blues

  • 13 12月 2019

  In this episode of The LNG Big Chill podcast we discuss the potential for under-utilisation of US LNG facilities, how much LNG Europe can take – and whether a new coal policy in South Korea will provide some upside this winter.

• Opinion

  Could the Majors take a fast-track route to lower emissions intensity?

  • 05 12月 2019

  A handful of assets account for almost a third of the Majors’ upstream carbon emissions – and that presents an opportunity for rapid progress against emissions targets.