Global Gas Model
Powerful natural gas market modeling, with a user-friendly interface, empowering confident long-term portfolio decisions
Build your own view of the global gas market
Global Gas Model is Wood Mackenzie’s web-based natural gas market model, built for accurate data-driven decision making. It allows you to input your own market assumptions to conduct ‘what if’ sensitivity analysis and build scenarios using our industry-leading market outlooks as a starting point.
Features and workflows
Run global gas market simulations under user defined supply, demand, piped, storage, contract sales, and producer behaviour assumptions.
Key features of Wood Mackenzie's Global Gas Model:
- Robust modelling and data visualisation.
- Web-based user interface.
- Long-term global gas market outlooks.
- Analysis-ready data exports.
- Access to expert analysts.
Wood Mackenzie's Global Gas Model provides data on:
Robust modelling and data visualisation
- Edit inputs to build your own scenarios.
- Change inputs for supply, demand, pipeline, storage and LNG infrastructure, contracts, and producer behaviour.
- Review results using the inbuilt, flexible, forecast reporting and visualisation tools.
Coverage of all gas markets
- Including 1,000+ contracts and 16,000+ pipeline and shipping routes.
- 2,000+ supply, 1,000+ demand, 190+ Liquefaction, and 200+ regas nodes.
Seasonal modelling
Monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or annual resolution.
Access Wood Mackenzie’s base case analysis
- 30-year Strategic Planning Outlook - comprehensive view of long-term market trends, supply-demand balances, and trade implications.
- 10-year Investment Horizon Outlook- focuses on market reactions to investment cycles for business planning, origination, and development opportunities.
Wood Mackenzie's Global Gas Model enables a number of key workflows including:
Gas & power market analysis and corporate strategy research
- Carry out sensitivity analyses to assess the key risks facing your business.
- Input your own proprietary information to develop bespoke scenarios.
- Understand the potential tonne-mile demand for LNG shipping in future.
- Understand the seasonal dynamics of the global gas market.
- Evaluate the relative position of different piped and LNG supply projects.
Upstream strategy & portfolio / New ventures
- Estimate the implications of different producer and buyer strategies on profitability.
- Understand the seasonal dynamics of the global gas market.
- Understand the potential tonne-mile demand for LNG shipping in future.
Why choose WoodMac's Global Gas Model?
Ease of use - Sophisticated cloud-hosted model with an intuitive web-based user interface, including built-in reporting.
Transparent - Our clients get full access to our analysts for ad hoc discussions and custom presentations, plus visibility on the full range of assumptions that feed our models.
Comprehensive - Our data is rich and robust. We combine a proprietary model with gas market knowledge and expertise giving you a consistent and considered Wood Mackenzie view.
Frequently asked questions
Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Wood Mackenzie's Global Gas Model. If you have any other questions, get in touch.
Dedicated analysts, with experience of modelling capabilities, would benefit from the use of Global Gas Model.
However, for customers who do not have deep modelling expertise, our Global Gas Tool allows you to quickly and easily analyse the base case outputs of the Global Gas Model. You can tailor reports on gas production, demand, price, global flows, and infrastructure utilisation.
As always, Wood Mackenzie analysts are on hand to assist customers.
The Strategic Planning Outlook (SPO) & Investment Horizon Outlook (IHO) are both updated annually.
When updates are released, customers are invited to attend webinars to interact with our analysts as they discuss changes to the base case.
Your success is our success!
We offer a full training programme for GGM with ongoing access to our global team of gas analysts & industry-leading research for you to keep ahead of market trends and dynamics. Delivering a quick turnaround on requests and queries, consider us an extension of your team!
Contact an expert
Identify opportunities, mitigate risks, and aid investment strategies with a powerful, web-based, market model. To learn more about how our Global Gas Model can help you understand global and inter-regional gas dynamics, contact our experts today.
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