• Opinion

  ARA Gasoil Inventories

  • 22 11月 2024

  Get a complimentary copy of our report highlighting how inventory builds, draws, and trend reversals influenced gasoil prices from Q3 2023 to Q3 2024.

• Opinion

  Webinar replays | Energy transition outlook: 2024-25 update

  • 21 11月 2024

  Watch our recent webinars on the state of the energy transition. The panelists discussed what a second Trump administration means for energy and natural resources, reflections from COP29 on Article 6 and climate finance. Plus, how fast will clean energy transitions unfold?

• Opinion

  Live from COP29: How US states will keep up climate action under a Trump administration

  • 14 11月 2024

  A special COP 29 episode exploring the power of states, regions and cities to advance the energy transition amid uncertain national policies.

• Opinion

  Rising to the challenge: decarbonising European power and prospects for flexible resources

  • 12 11月 2024

  As Europe pushes towards a decarbonised future, flexibility is becoming the cornerstone of sustainable power systems - but while batteries and other flexible assets will play a vital role, how can the power markets make room for them?

• Opinion

  Copper rush: A strategic analysis

  • 11 11月 2024

  Power demand is set to double through 2050. This will happen amid a shift away from fossil fuels and thermal generation capacity and a move towards more renewable power. Much of that renewable power generation is copper-intensive ‒ indeed, electrification cannot happen without it.

• Opinion

  What’s next for energy after the US elections?

  • 11 11月 2024

  With a new Trump administration set to steer US energy policy, what changes lie ahead for energy? Join Ed Crooks and expert guests as they break down the impacts on energy policy, renewables and the Inflation Reduction Act.

• Opinion

  Americas Chemical Conference recap

  • 19 12月 2017

  After our 4th Americas Chemical Conference in Houston, Steve Zinger shares his thoughts on the conference and discusses some of the hot topics in the chemicals industry.

• Opinion

  What will it take to sustain corporate upstream growth to 2030?

  • 30 10月 2018

  Upstream corporate growth is threatened by chronic underspend. What factors are influencing spending? And what's the growth factor the industry needs? Tom Ellacott and Norman Valentine analyse the lack of investment and its impact on long-term outlooks for oil majors.

• Opinion

  4 threats to the global ethylene boom

  • 07 11月 2018

  Can the global ethylene boom be sustained as risks mount?

• Opinion

  Will drivers see a repeat of 2014's gasoline price reprieve?

  • 02 11月 2018

  The average retail gasoline price in the United States is now close to U.S.$3 a gallon, while in Germany, gasoline is retailing at an average of €1.40 per litre. We last saw prices like these in November 2014. Could we see a repeat of the 2014 reprieve?

• Opinion

  IMO 2020: mayhem or opportunity for the refining and marine sectors?

  • 04 9月 2018

  Alan Gelder investigates the impact of the IMO's planned changes to marine fuel standards on the shipping and refining sectors This article first appeared on Forbes.com on September 3, 2018.

• Opinion

  LNG ship orders pour in

  • 21 8月 2018

  Thirty-three new LNG ships have been ordered so far this year, compared to 19 in the whole of 2017 and just six in 2016 - a result of favourable rates, low newbuilding prices and rapidly growing demand. But owners need to be careful they don’t over order. Is it too little too late or too much too soon?

• Opinion

  Australia's east coast gas market – how LNG changes everything

  • 27 9月 2018

  At last count four separate project developers are proposing LNG import terminals in Australia. These come just as Australia is ramping up LNG production to overtake Qatar as the world's largest LNG exporter. So what is going on?

• Opinion

  Can Gazprom deliver Power of Siberia gas to China by 2020?

  • 06 9月 2017

  In July, Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) announced first gas supplies via the Power of Siberia pipeline for 20 December 2019. Alongside a raft of projects starting up in 2019-2021, tax increases and low gas prices are straining Gasproms finances. We explore the risks for the Power of Siberia project.

• Opinion

  Trump administration declines to go all in for coal — for now

  • 01 9月 2017

  On August 24, the Department of Energy released their "Staff Report on Electricity Markets and Reliability," which some thought would provide a strong endorsement of the value of baseload coal. This was not the case.

• Opinion

  Evolving opportunities and challenges in the PET industry

  • 02 2月 2017

  The recent PET 2020 conference in Brussels brought the industry together to reflect on how Europe's PET recycling model has become a benchmark in the wider market.

• Opinion

  2017 Gas Indonesia Summit: what lies ahead?

  • 07 8月 2017

  As Indonesia braces for higher LNG consumption, the country needs to address several issues, which can be used as learnings across emerging LNG markets around the world.

• Opinion

  ExxonMobil acquires Southeast Asia's Jurong Aromatics

  • 15 5月 2017

  ExxonMobil acquired Jurong Aromatics in May 2017, strengthen its aromatics supply position in south east Asia.

• Opinion

  Has DuPont left the building?

  • 31 5月 2017

  Does the recent sale of its BOPP and BOPET assets to Jindal Poly Films mean Dupont has left these markets for good? Simon King considers the deal.

• Opinion

  A wild ride ahead for petchems?

  • 04 3月 2017

  Steve Zinger discusses the five market changes which are set to make waves in the global petchems markets.

• Opinion

  Is the Southern Cone gas industry finally ready for lift off?

  • 05 11月 2015

  Brazil’s natural gas industry and that of its neighbors in the Southern Cone, such as Argentina and Chile, have labelled gas the ‘fuel of the future’. Has that future finally arrived?

• Opinion

  Energy view to 2035 in five charts

  • 15 6月 2017

  We've distilled our outlook into five charts that examine global supply by fuel, demand by country and emerging markets in Asia Pacific.

• Opinion

  How will President Trump manage the COP21 treaty?

  • 16 3月 2017

  President Trump is reviewing the US commitment to the 2015 Paris climate agreement (known as COP21). How will his actions affect the global coal market?

• Opinion

  Will deals walk the optimistic talk of NAPE?

  • 21 2月 2017

  NAPE 2017 was a great show, and optimism is back in the oil patch.

• Opinion

  ‘Permania’ prevails, and other learnings from the 2017 DUG Permian Conference

  • 11 4月 2017

  At the 2017 DUG Permian Conference, three main themes stood out.

• Opinion

  European oil storage: Competitiveness is key to identifying sustainable investments

  • 22 3月 2017

  Major transactions within Europe’s oil storage sector have resulted in an estimated 22 million barrels of capacity changing hands in 2016.

• Opinion

  New project sanctions on the rise?

  • 21 6月 2017

  At the start of the year, we predicted that around 20 to 25 major new upstream projects would be sanctioned in 2017, roughly double the score for 2016. So, as we approach the year’s halfway mark, how is our forecast faring?

• Opinion

  Emissions intensity: portfolio composition is the key

  • 20 9月 2017

  Dr Gavin Law explains why his new research into emissions intensity has revealed that operators' portfolios hold the key to the intensity of their carbon output.

• Opinion

  LNG supply on the up and up

  • 06 12月 2016

  Despite the LNG industry’s well-documented challenges, there are reasons to be positive.

• Opinion

  Breaking the cycle? Cost efficiency in upstream oil and gas

  • 10 12月 2015

  The fact is that the industry faces a structural cost problem which was easy to hide in the days of US$100 oil but less so today.