TMX: first insights

• 17 7月 2024

How will Canada's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion impact the North American crude oil market?

How Shell’s Pavilion LNG acquisition will affect the Singaporean market

• 28 6月 2024

Shell has acquired Singaporean Pavilion Energy from Temasek. Here's how it will impact Singapore's market structure and LNG bunkering services.

Emboldened and disciplined exploration: results from our Future of Exploration 2024 Survey

• 29 5月 2024

This Wood Mackenzie survey takes the pulse of the exploration sector and assesses its key issues and challenges.

ADNOC acquires stake in Rovuma LNG from Galp

• 23 5月 2024

The transaction supports ADNOC's international gas strategy and the high grading of Galp's upstream portfolio.

End of an era looms as Chevron seeks UK exit

• 23 5月 2024

Clair is the big attraction for would-be buyers

Could US data centres and AI shake up the global LNG market?

• 23 5月 2024

Changing dynamics in US power and gas markets have led our team to take a more bullish view of how gas prices develop. Simon Flowers asks Eugene Kim, Massimo Di Odoardo from our Global Gas team and Gavin Thompson about their thinking and the implications for the LNG market.

Debating the future direction of the LNG market

• 23 5月 2024

Five takeaways from our LNG Roundtable with Mayer Brown

Biomethane/RNG Service

Expert insight into the biomethane / renewable natural gas (RNG) market to identify opportunities, mitigate risks, and support investment and decarbonisation strategies.

New York Harbor gasoline and ULSD inventories guide markets through a relatively tight 2023

• 20 5月 2024

New York Harbor gasoline and ULSD prices: 2023 highlights

Reducing the emissions from natural gas

• 13 5月 2024

Demand for natural gas is growing. So is pressure to reduce its carbon intensity. The industry’s emissions will increasingly come under scrutiny, and measurement and reporting will need to improve.

How higher interest rates could hold up energy transition investment

• 09 5月 2024

Higher interest rates could stall investment in green technologies. Learn what Policymakers can do to keep the energy transition on track in this analysis.

Upstream investment in Africa: what does the future hold as new investment hotspots replace legacy producers?

• 18 9月 2024

Upstream investment in Africa has been slower to recover from the pandemic compared to more agile regions with lower costs. Moving forward, we expect investments of around US$40 billion annually, or 8% of global capex, to be the new normal.

Delaying deepwater decommissioning

• 02 5月 2024

With resilient oil demand and a positive outlook for prices, operators are doing all they can to shift spend away from decommissioning. What are the options to keep deepwater wells running for longer?

Pressures from investors and governments change the shape of the US tight oil industry

• 09 4月 2021

Pioneer’s US$6.4 billion deal for DoublePoint shows how demands for higher returns and lower emissions are driving consolidation among US E&Ps.

How carbon pricing could reshape upstream oil and gas economics

• 31 3月 2021

Few countries currently require oil and gas producers to either pay a carbon tax or participate in an emissions trading scheme (ETS). But that could soon change. Higher carbon charges are not a case of ‘if’ but when, where and how much — raising serious questions for investors.

Suez blockage highlights Asia’s vulnerability to disruptions

• 31 3月 2021

The grounding of the 400-metre, 224,000-tonne Ever Given cargo vessel in the Suez Canal last Tuesday inevitably sparked concern across the global economy and, while the vessel is now afloat and traffic has resumed, will have once again reminded Asian countries of the risks such trade arteries continue to present.

President Biden aims for higher employment and lower emissions

• 01 4月 2021

Two announcements this week showed the administration attempting to deliver on its promise that a key goal of climate policy is job creation.

US E&Ps on a capital-raising spree

• 26 3月 2021

Near-zero interest rates and higher oil prices have created ideal conditions for E&Ps to issue debt. Will the capital inflows enable them to ramp up activity faster?

China’s war on waste means more than just clean plates

• 24 3月 2021

In re-launching the ‘Clean Plate’ campaign in August last year, President Xi Jinping urged all of China to “maintain a sense of crisis about food security”. This is of course an important message in and of itself, given the huge amounts of energy, water and land involved in food production in China.

How innovation and carbon are shaping future LNG supply

• 26 3月 2021

LNG might be the last great growth opportunity in oil and gas. But the difficult investment environment and buyers’ appetite for low-carbon LNG are among the challenges facing developers.

Wood Mackenzie 2020 Research Excellence Awards

• 23 3月 2021

In 2020, our global analysts produced an outstanding body of research to help steer our clients through the challenges and uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our annual Research Excellence Awards celebrate the very best of that compelling and timely insight.

Vaccinations point the way to energy demand recovery

• 19 3月 2021

It has been a rough week for crude prices, but as vaccine availability continues to widen, hopes of a sustained pick-up in activity are well founded

Drone strikes attempt to disrupt Saudi oil exports

• 12 3月 2021

Houthi militants have failed in recent attempts to hit targets in Saudi Arabia. But markets and governments are watching closely for a possible threat to oil supplies

Big Oil’s separate paths to decarbonisation

• 12 3月 2021

All of the Majors have strategies for the energy transition, they're just doing it in different ways. The Euro Majors have set net-zero targets and are diversifying into renewables; the US Majors' strategy is about decarbonising oil and gas. What's behind the different approaches? How will coming changes in US policy on climate change influence the US Majors' strategies? And what about ESG pressure from investors?

Federal leases and permits: how much could US tight oil shrink?

• 03 3月 2021

The Biden administration has moved swiftly to impose temporary restrictions on new federal lease sales and drilling permits ahead of a potential overhaul of regulations for oil and gas producers on federal lands. Are tighter rules ahead?

The Texas energy crisis: its causes and consequences

• 19 2月 2021

Freezing conditions in the southern US led to blackouts and a slump in gas production. What can we learn from the crisis?

Could alternative marine fuels decarbonise shipping?

• 26 2月 2021

Tough IMO emissions targets could steer shipping towards biofuels and e-fuels – but there are issues to navigate.

Why refinery-petrochemical integration is the downstream trend to watch

• 16 2月 2021

A tumultuous year has highlighted some key truths for the downstream sector – and new performance benchmarks are being set.

Carbon emissions: a new challenge for US LNG

• 05 2月 2021

President Joe Biden adds to the pressure on US gas exporters to consider climate impacts

A £2.5 trillion transformation: the economic impact of a net-zero North Sea

• 04 2月 2021

Low-carbon technologies have the potential to transform the energy industry. They could also have a powerful effect on local economies – as the UK is on a mission to demonstrate.