• Webinar

  Future Facing Commodities Forum 2025

  • 30 4月 2025

  Future Facing Commodities Forum returns on 30 April 2025, focusing on the outlook for the key commodities that underpin the energy transition.

• Opinion

  Horizons Live: The bridge

  • 10 3月 2025

  Can gas be the key to a lower-carbon future? Our expert panel explores its role in the energy transition and what’s needed to unlock its full potential.

• Opinion

  Horizons Live: Tough at the top

  • 09 5月 2025

  Is US energy dominance built to last? Discover the key challenges and market forces shaping America's energy future.

• News Release

  Wood Mackenzie brings light to homes in Puerto Rico

  • 08 3月 2022

  A team of three analysts from global energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK), are in Puerto Rico this week helping install solar panels on homes as part of a new initiative with charity Let’s Share the Sun Foundation.

• News Release

  Drought puts pressure on Brazil’s power sector

  • 08 9月 2021

  The severe drought in Brazil will contribute to an extremely tight power balance in the country, new research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK), shows.

• News Release

  Global energy storage set to triple in 2021

  • 07 10月 2021

  New research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK), shows annual global storage deployments will nearly triple year-on-year, reaching 12 GW/28 GWh in 2021. Across the world, economic recovery is top of mind for politicians, with renewable energy integration taking centre stage. Despite disruptions from the Covid-19 pandemic, Wood Mackenzie’s Global Energy Storage Outlook, released today, forecasts nearly 1 TWh of total demand from 2021-2030.

• Webinar

  Metals and Mining Briefing | Capturing value from carbon taxes

  • 08 7月 2021

  Join us on Thursday 8th July for a discussion with Wood Mackenzie’s senior metals and mining experts to understand how carbon taxes and stakeholder pressure are reshaping the metals and mining investment environment.

• Opinion

  Horizons Live: Gridlock

  • 01 11月 2024

  The US is on the brink of electricity demand growth not seen in decades. And it is not ready. Our panel explored the demand dilemma on this month's Horizons Live.

• News Release

  Argentina weighs new price subsidy, but freezes gas tariffs

  • 25 6月 2020

  Gas pricing and market regulation are again under discussion in Argentina. The coronavirus pandemic has weakened an already vulnerable economy, with the impact felt in the gas market. To maintain low gas prices for end-users, the new administration has imposed a tariff freeze until the end of 2020.

• Comment

  ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Strikes Oil in Guyana with the Turbot-1 well

  • 06 10月 2017

  Following ExxonMobil's (NYSE: XOM) announcement this morning of its fifth new oil discovery after drilling the Turbot-1 well offshore Guyana, Pablo Medina, Wood Mackenzie's senior analyst, Latin America Upstream has the following comments.

• Comment

  Brazil and ExxonMobil win big at oilfield auction

  • 05 10月 2017

  Following Brazil's record oil field auction yesterday, where ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) vastly expanded its presence in the country with winning stakes in ten blocks, including eight deepwater blocks in the Campos basin, Horacio Cuenca, Research Director, Upstream Latin America at Wood Mackenzie offers the following commentary.

• News Release

  Production from Argentina's Vaca Muerta to reach 113 kboed by 2018

  • 04 5月 2017

  The seven most advanced developments are expected to see production increases of 43% in 2017.

• News Release

  Decommission or redevelop? Brazil's mature Campos basin oil fields await resurgence

  • 28 8月 2018

  Brazil’s Campos basin is awaiting a resurgence in production according to a new report by Wood Mackenzie, analysing the impacts redevelopment of the basin's mature oil fields could have on production, royalty collection and job creation.

• Comment

  ExxonMobil and Guyana hit Jackpot with latest offshore discovery

  • 01 9月 2018

  ExxonMobil’s exploration success in the last few years has established the Guyana basin as one of the world’s offshore exploration hotspots. Accounting for 15% of all conventional crude found globally since 2015, no other area has delivered as much conventional oil resource.

• Comment

  ExxonMobil's Pluma marks a perfect 10

  • 04 12月 2018

  ExxonMobil’s exploration success in the last few years has established the Guyana basin as one of the world’s offshore exploration hotspots. Luiz Hayum, research analyst with Wood Mackenzie's Latin America upstream oil and gas team, comments on Exxon's latest find, Pluma.

• News Release

  Latin America to buck global exploration trend in 2018

  • 22 1月 2018

  Driven by an impressive array of licensing and farm-in opportunities, plus an upsurge in exploration activity, Latin America’s upstream sector is poised for a banner year in 2018, according to a new insight by Wood Mackenzie, Latin America Upstream: What to look for in 2018.

• Comment

  Sanctions to squeeze Venezuela’s output

  • 01 2月 2019

  The sanctions the US government has imposed against Venezuela aim to curb the Maduro government’s access to revenue from crude export. But impact could they have on state-run oil producer PDVSA and the country’s energy sector?

• News Release

  Puerto Rico microgrid market to more than double by end of 2024

  • 03 6月 2019

  New research from Wood Mackenzie forecasts the microgrid market in Puerto Rico will reach 228 megawatts (MW) by the end of 2024, more than double the microgrid generation capacity currently available on the island.

• News Release

  Mexico to lead Central America, Caribbean wind power growth

  • 03 7月 2019

  More than 9.5 gigawatts (GW) of new wind power capacity will be commissioned in Central America and the Caribbean through 2028, driven by central planning authorities in smaller markets and the attractive value proposition of the technology in Mexico, new research from Wood Mackenzie found.

• News Release

  Dominican Republic launches first licensing round

  • 10 7月 2019

  The Dominican Republic today launched its first licensing round, putting 14 blocks across its on- and offshore basins up for bid.

• News Release

  Brazil gas market reform unlocks investment across value chain

  • 06 8月 2019

  Brazil’s natural gas market reforms have taken a major step forward, with plans in place which are set to open up opportunities across the gas value chain, and boost investment in the country’s pre-salt.

• News Release

  Data consortiums signal the future of oil and gas

  • 07 8月 2019

  Wood Mackenzie believes that discovering new value requires going beyond isolated datasets. The solution lies in data consortiums – cooperative platforms where companies can safely share quality data.

• Comment

  Jethro-1 delivers the goods for Tullow

  • 13 8月 2019

  The Jethro-1 well, drilled in the Orinduik block, offshore Guyana, has delivered for Tullow Oil, with chief executive Paul McDade saying the prospect could hold more than 100 million barrels of recoverable oil, subject to appraisal.

• Comment

  Brazil’s PSC Round 6 disappoints as Petrobras lodges sole bid

  • 07 11月 2019

  Speaking after this morning’s PSC round, Juliana Miguez, from Wood Mackenzie’s Latin America upstream team, said: “Petrobras has returned to the headlines. One day after it dominated the Transfer of Rights Surplus round, the NOC placed the only bid of today’s auction."

• News Release

  Iron ore – 5 things to watch in 2020

  • 20 1月 2020

  Slower demand growth (especially in China) and a decent recovery in seaborne supply will continue to feature prominently in the iron ore industry in 2020. Prices will fall, with annual average price forecast for 2020 at $80/t.

• News Release

  Brazil’s consumers ‘pay price’ for power costs problems

  • 12 2月 2020

  New research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie indicates the fuel pricing mechanism used by Brazil’s Energy Planning Agency (EPE) in the country’s power auctions does not align with the New Gas Market programme – and Brazilian electricity consumers may pay the price for this.

• News Release

  Oil price rout may trigger major industry shake-up

  • 10 3月 2020

  As global markets reel in the wake of the oil price crash, Wood Mackenzie’ corporate analysis team believes the price collapse could be the trigger for a new phase of deep industry restructuring - one that rivals the changes seen in the late-1990s.

• News Release

  OPEC+ ‘no deal’ a blow to the market

  • 06 3月 2020

  The OPEC+ meeting broke up without a deal, what does it mean for the markets?

• Comment

  Industry slashes spending as price rout deepens: Can companies cope?

  • 19 3月 2020

  Survival mode has returned to the oil and gas sector as the oil price rout deepens. Corporate financials are in better shape than during the 2014/2015 crash, but room for manoeuvre is limited. Can companies cope with prices this low?

• News Release

  Oil price rout: which supply is most at risk of shut-in?

  • 27 3月 2020

  The coronavirus pandemic is reducing oil demand. The OPEC+ production restraint agreement fell apart on 6 March and Saudi Arabia is rapidly increasing supply. The result: Brent crude has plunged to less than US$30/bbl. This will have a significant impact on currently producing fields and future supply. How low can the price go before different sources of production become uneconomic? Where are production shut-ins most likely? Can governments influence the result?