• Opinion

  Will 2021 breathe life back into the Asia Pacific upstream M&A market?

  • 16 12月 2020

  The recovery in oil and gas prices should help bring buyers and sellers closer on price expectation, while ongoing consolidation among upstream producers in North America has driven a sharp uptick in global M&A in recent months, likely pushing more non-core APAC assets into the market.

• Featured

  Global upstream oil and gas: new challenges ahead in 2021

  • 19 1月 2021

  What does 2021 hold for the global upstream oil and gas industry? It will be a year of uncertainty and contingency – but resilience and recovery are also key themes.

• Opinion

  Australian coal exports bounce back from China’s ban

  • 04 3月 2021

  Australia’s coal exporters have staged a recovery after volumes to China plummeted.

• Opinion

  2021 – cheerful or fearful?

  • 13 1月 2021

  And after the 12 months we’ve all just experienced, making bold predictions for the year ahead is more fraught than ever: nothing is off the table.

• Opinion

  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.

• Opinion

  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.

• Opinion

  Aiming high: can China’s steel industry hit its ambitious targets?

  • 15 2月 2021

  China’s next Five-Year Plan has some tough goals for the country’s steel industry. It goes beyond solving problems like overcapacity and improving domestic raw-material security, to making its operations greener. Can it be done? And in such a short timeframe?

• Opinion

  How Asia changed the global LNG market in the space of a year

  • 21 4月 2021

  The past year has undoubtedly been the most dramatic in the history of the global LNG industry. Demand buffeted by lockdowns and recession, liquefaction shut-in, pre-FID supply projects delayed and spot LNG prices crashing to all-time lows before going into orbit.

• Opinion

  There’s still life in China’s shale gas

  • 28 4月 2021

  Looking back over a decade as the US shale gas boom began to dramatically transform the country’s energy balance, driving down gas prices and ultimately creating one of the world’s largest LNG exporters, many speculated whether China could replicate this success.

• Opinion

  India in crisis

  • 06 5月 2021

  Given the scale of the crisis facing India and the potential for a further nationwide lockdown, I turned to our experts to hear how they are assessing the impact across the economy and energy sectors.

• Opinion

  Southeast Asia’s steel surge: how will the region manage overcapacity?

  • 11 5月 2021

  Southeast Asia continues to see ambitious expansion in steel capacity. But with lacklustre utilisation levels, will protectionist government policies be enough to address overcapacity?

• Opinion

  Asia’s developing economies need more gas investment, not less

  • 27 5月 2021

  It is increasingly clear across Asia that governments, lenders, and both gas suppliers and consumers must prioritise the management of carbon emissions across the gas value chain.

• Opinion

  Opportunities abound in Asia Pacific’s transforming power markets

  • 01 7月 2021

  Last week we hosted our inaugural Asia Pacific Power & Renewables Conference. This three-day event tackled all aspects of the region’s power markets and their roles in the energy transition.

• Opinion

  China, coal and the big crunch

  • 07 10月 2021

  The impact of China’s power crunch is being felt globally. As Beijing’s ‘at all costs’ directive pushes coal and gas prices higher, governments, energy suppliers and customers across Asia and Europe are bracing for a tough winter ahead.

• Opinion

  Does Europe have enough gas to meet demand?

  • 08 10月 2021

  We've seen record wholesale gas prices over the past month. But this masks the bigger question - is there enough gas to meet european demand this winter?

• Opinion

  Ancillary services market redesign in Asia Pacific to drive grid-scale battery uptake

  • 13 3月 2024

  Ancillary services are crucial for reliable and safe operation of a power system. Redesign of such markets in Asia Pacific could kickstart the uptake of grid-scale batteries in the region.

• Opinion

  Hoegh Galleon helps Egypt’s gas crunch but delays Australian LNG imports

  • 22 4月 2024

  Egyptian LNG import capacity will arrive ahead of peak summer demand

• Opinion

  The potential of Indonesia’s ‘energy super basins’

  • 11 7月 2024

  We share how the country’s upstream operators can leverage sustainability principles by seeking “advantaged resources” within their portfolio

• Opinion

  Could an expansion of Western sanctions derail Yamal LNG?

  • 28 8月 2024

  The implications of the EU's ban on the transshipment of Russian LNG and what could come next

• Opinion

  Big in Japan? The impact of Typhoon Shanshan on oil

  • 01 11月 2024

  The threat from tropical cyclones makes real-time intelligence essential to anticipating Japanese oil markets.

• Opinion

  How to make upstream licensing work

  • 19 11月 2024

  Despite tight budgets, new upstream investment across Asia-Pacific has never been more competitive as explorers refocus on acreage reload to reinvigorate portfolios.

• Opinion

  Asia Pacific’s energy transition conundrum – is net zero possible?

  • 10 8月 2021

  The net zero race is on and Asia Pacific has joined the chase. But the scale of the APAC energy transition challenge is enormous.

• Opinion

  De-constructing India’s gas supply boom

  • 12 8月 2021

  India’s pipeline of pre-FID domestic gas supply is perilously thin; the current surge in supply is a short-term story at best.

• Opinion

  Onsan refinery case study: how much value will greater refinery-petrochemical integration add for S-Oil?

  • 23 8月 2021

  How can refiners assess the potential ROI of increased petrochemical integration? We explore how S-Oil’s plans to add steam cracking to its Onsan site will affect its competitive position.

• Opinion

  China’s top 5 ‘must haves’ from COP26

  • 02 9月 2021

  With COP26 rapidly approaching, China’s special envoy on climate change, Xie Zhenhua, recently announced that Beijing would release more details of its climate strategy “very soon”. The clock is ticking.

• Opinion

  Carbon capture and the future of LNG in Asia

  • 08 9月 2021

  With LNG projects among the most emission-intense assets in the oil and gas sector, many companies are now actively working to lower the carbon intensity of their LNG portfolio.

• Opinion

  Is Asia’s oil market recovery losing pace?

  • 15 9月 2021

  Continued restrictions on mobility reverberate through to demand for transportation fuels in Asia Pacific.

• Opinion

  The fork in the road for Asia’s oil and gas demand

  • 23 9月 2021

  Our accelerated energy transition (AET-2) scenario offers a view on how to achieve a 2˚C world aligned with the upper temperature limit of the 2015 Paris Agreement. The AET-2 scenario is curtains for long-term global oil demand, with consumption falling to 70% below peak levels by 2050.

• Opinion

  Asia’s demand engine fires up global LNG supply

  • 02 12月 2021

  Indeed, it is confidence in the resilience of long-term Asian gas demand, even in our accelerated energy transition scenarios, that has been key to the 50 mmtpa of new LNG supply that has taken FID in 2021 compared to only 3 mmtpa in 2020.

• Featured

  Upstream oil and gas: top trends and wildcards to watch in 2022

  • 13 12月 2021

  The oil and gas sector bounceback is set to continue – but the positive outlook is tempered by concerns about its future in a decarbonising world. Find out how global trends could play out in your region in our 2022 Outlook series.