• Opinion

  Big in Japan? The impact of Typhoon Shanshan on oil

  • 01 noviembre 2024

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

• Opinion

  What can we expect from energy in 2025?

  • 08 enero 2025

  The gang share their predictions for energy in 2025.

• Opinion

  Cushing 2024: key price insights and market trends

  • 07 enero 2025

  Due to ongoing volatility in the global oil markets, traders need prompt indication of changes in the market

• Opinion

  Climate Week NYC special: What is the role that the oil and gas industry should play in the energy transition? Does it have one?

  • 24 septiembre 2024

  Can the oil and gas industry really play a role in achieving net zero? Or do we need to rethink its place in the energy transition? Join the debate with Ed Crooks and guests Bjorn Otto Sverdrup and Gernot Wagner in this first Climate Week episode.

• Opinion

  Refinery-chemicals integration: how to benchmark success

  • 17 septiembre 2020

  The growing trend of integrated refinery-chemical facilities is intensifying. Standalone oil refineries, focused only on fuel, are looking increasingly outdated as the energy transition takes hold.

• Opinion

  Australia’s upstream M&A market is hotting up

  • 13 octubre 2020

  Deals are emerging across the sector, but finding the right buyer is a challenge. For the Majors, freeing up capital, bolstering balance sheets and clearing out assets which could be a drag on future cashflows is a priority. But it's a difficult time to sell.

• Opinion

  How much value does refinery-chemicals integration add for Total and Shell?

  • 13 octubre 2020

  Integration has become a strategic imperative, but measuring value is notoriously difficult. Our experts crunched the numbers for Total’s integrated portfolio and looked at how that compared to Shell.

• Opinion

  In conversation with Asia Pacific’s CEOs

  • 04 noviembre 2020

  We hosted the CEOs of PETRONAS, Santos and Medco, the chairman of Indian Oil Corporation, and many other senior executives from a range of leading oil and gas companies, utilities and banks over two days at our APAC Energy & Commodities Summit last month.

• Opinion

  Harvest or grow: what’s the future of upstream oil & gas investment?

  • 27 noviembre 2020

  Resilience and sustainability will increasingly shape the upstream oil and gas industry’s investment decisions

• Opinion

  What is carbon-neutral LNG?

  • 18 noviembre 2020

  LNG ranks among the most emission-intensive resource themes across the oil and gas sector.

• Opinion

  Biden, China and politics of energy

  • 11 noviembre 2020

  As the new administration looks to take the US back into the Paris climate agreement, will the US and China work together on tackling global warming?

• Opinion

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

  • 16 diciembre 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.

• Opinion

  Dual circulation and China’s push for energy security

  • 25 noviembre 2020

  At its core, dual circulation is about relying less on the outside world.

• Opinion

  What happens to gas and LNG if the energy transition accelerates?

  • 10 diciembre 2020

  Gas still has a role to play in reducing global carbon emissions. But what will the renewed focus on decarbonisation mean for the gas and LNG industry?

• Opinion

  Three factors driving the upstream M&A market

  • 02 diciembre 2020

  Operators are under growing pressure to optimise portfolios. What are the forces having the biggest impact on decision-making?

• Opinion

  North Sea decommissioning: a turning point lies ahead

  • 09 diciembre 2020

  £16 billion will be spent on offshore decommissioning in the coming decade – how can costs be planned and managed effectively?

• Opinion

  OPEC+ strikes a deal to avoid oil glut

  • 04 diciembre 2020

  The production cuts agreed by the OPEC+ group in April have been highly effective in rebalancing the oil market after the pandemic sent demand plunging. With hopes growing of a stronger rebound next year, some countries, led by the United Arab Emirates, have been calling for OPEC+ to stick to its plan to allow almost 2 million b/d of extra production in January. But demand is expected still to be weak in the first quarter at least, as the Covid-19 vaccines begin to be rolled out. An OPEC+ production increase of that size would have risked an oversupplied market and falling crude prices. Facing that risk, the OPEC+ ministers pulled back from the brink and agreed a production increase of just 500,000 b/d, to be reviewed for possible further increases every month.

• Opinion

  Global upstream update: the global sanctions slump, grappling with gas and potential US tailwinds

  • 05 marzo 2025

  The oil and gas industry faces a cautious yet ambitious 2025

• Opinion

  Horizons Live: Eye on the tiger

  • 09 abril 2025

  What if India’s growth matched China’s 2000's boom? Explore the global energy ripple effects in this month’s Horizons Live.

• Opinion

  Horizons Live: Scraping the barrel

  • 07 marzo 2023

  On this Horizons Live replay, Simon Flowers, Chairman and Chief Analyst, is joined by Andrew Latham, Vice President, Energy Research and Ann-Louise Hittle, Head of Macro Oils to discuss whether the world is running out of high-quality oil and gas.

• Opinion

  A tantalising year for North Sea exploration

  • 06 junio 2019

  As we near the mid-point of 2019, we focus on three exciting North Sea exploration areas to discover how the industry is continuing the upward global trend.

• Opinion

  Poor capital discipline will drive difficult decisions for refiners

  • 07 mayo 2019

  Sustained oil demand growth provides an opportunity for the refining sector. But is the refining sector being overly optimistic about the scale of the opportunity? And is it over-investing in total crude capacity? Get the latest analysis from Alan Gelder.

• Opinion

  IMO 2020 and the rocky road to full compliance

  • 10 abril 2019

  Join our experts to tackle some of the industry's burning questions on IMO 2020 and the potential stumbling blocks.

• Opinion

  Deepwater's Latin America comeback

  • 16 abril 2019

  Latin America is the hotspot for deepwater project and exploration activity. As more top companies take a risk on exploration plays in the region, what challenges lie ahead?

• Opinion

  Middle East leads the pack in 2018 FID bonanza

  • 15 abril 2019

  11 projects sanctioned in the Middle East as producers look to take advantage of the lower cost environment. What’s behind the boom?

• Opinion

  Unlocking exploration’s hidden value

  • 21 marzo 2019

  Exploration is making money again. After a difficult few years, the sector's disciplined approach has begun to bear fruit. How evaluate the true cost of exploration?

• Opinion

  How will US independents answer the call for capital discipline?

  • 14 febrero 2019

  Investors in the Lower 48 E&P sector are demanding greater capital discipline. US Independents are under pressure to deliver returns, free cash flow and demonstrate meaningful capital discipline. New research from Wood Mackenzie shows that in the tug-of-war between value and volume, value has emerged as the winner.

• Opinion

  Signs of renewed optimism in the global offshore upstream supply chain

  • 06 febrero 2019

  After a difficult few years, the global offshore upstream supply chain saw continued signs of recovery in 2018. Could 2019 mark a tipping point?

• Opinion

  North Sea exploration is making a comeback in 2019

  • 08 enero 2019

  What's in store for the North Sea industry in 2019? Neivan Boroujerdi, senior analyst for North Sea upstream, looks at five big themes in 2019, a year of increased exploration, some big transactions led by North American Majors and large caps, and a new wave of projects.

• Opinion

  The future of exploration: Big wells mainly in deepwater and frontiers

  • 23 mayo 2018

  Over the next few years, we expect most of the 'wells to watch' will be operated by the Majors and a handful of bolder independents. And we expect, as has been the case throughout the downturn, the best discoveries to come from newly-proven plays and frontiers, with again, more than half of all volumes being found in deepwater. In the second part of his three-part series following EAGE in Copenhagen, Andy Latham highlights our 'wells to watch' in 2018.