Refined Products Wholesale & Retail Markets Services
Navigate the complex and changing refined products and retail fuels markets
Identify opportunities and risks in the refined products markets
Wood Mackenzie provides a comprehensive view of the fuels market and its future evolution, as well as clarity of the short- and long-term oil product markets. With robust analysis of supply, utilisation and demand, pricing and margins dynamics, our unrivalled insights and forecasts enable you to identify growth opportunities, develop strategies and mitigate risks.
Features and workflows
Better understand the refined oil products and retail fuels markets to identify growth opportunities and assess profitability.
Key features of Refined Products Wholesale and Retail Markets Services:
- Access retail fuels data and reports to better understand market structure at a country level.
- Benchmark company positions and assess profitability for the retail fuels supply chain.
- Assess retail fuel markets with individual country reports covering the downstream value chain on individual market and company levels.
- Explore new market entry, conduct competitor benchmarking, and understand regulatory changes.
- Easily visualise, download, and analyse vital market data with our intuitive data tool.
Wood Mackenzie's Refined Products Wholesale and Retail Markets Services provide data including:
- Forecasts to 2050 for road fuel demand.
- Historic and forecast fundamental supply, demand and pricing data published by governments, national and international agencies.
- Annual supply/demand long-term outlook to 2050.
- Monthly refined products short-term market outlook with 12 to 24 months forecast.
- Commodity-based reports with commentary on the key drivers of the market outlook.
- Product trade forecasts for 16 countries and regions and crude trade forecasts for 26 countries and regions.
- Monthly retail fuel price forecast out 24 months and annually out to 2050.
- Forecasts for car population by fuel type (gasoline, diesel, hybrids, electric vehicles) out to 2050.
Wood Mackenzie's Refined Products Wholesale and Retail Markets Services enable a number of key workflows including:
Forecasting
- Investigate oil product demand trends and forecasts.
- Evaluate downstream infrastructure, from refineries to storage, distribution and retail networks.
- Track refinery investments and their impact on country utilisation and product balances.
- Analyse trends in crude differentials, product crack spreads and refining margins.
Benchmarking
- Benchmark fuel market competitors and understand profitability drivers and strategies.
- Establish market competitiveness and plan portfolio activities to support organisational objectives.
- Benchmark performance against other players and identify how markets are changing.
Why choose WoodMac’s Refined Products Wholesale and Retail Markets Services?
Leveraging our Upstream, Downstream, Petrochemical, and Cross-Commodity expertise, we develop a global fundamentals and price outlook across the refined oil products and retail fuels value chain.
Refined products wholesale and retail markets services:
Product Markets Service Long-Term
Examine oil product imbalances and explore growth opportunities with our analysis of supply, demand and pricing dynamics.
Frequently asked questions
Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Wood Mackenzie’s Refined Products Wholesale and Retail Markets Services. If you have any other questions, get in touch.
Key deliverables for our Refined Products Wholesale and Retail Markets Services are:
Long-term outlook to 2050 including:
- Oil product supply/demand fundamentals forecasts for over 100 countries and territories
- Annual demand forecasts by product, sector and location developed as part of an integrated commodities forecast
- Forecast for crude supply by country/region (26 demand centres) and by API band (Condensates/Light/Medium/Heavy)
Monthly refined products market short-term outlook to 14-24 months, including:
- 37+ country & sub-regional supply/demand balances, including US PADDs 1-5
- Assessment of crude runs, refinery supply by product, demand, imports, exports, inventories, forward cover and yield on crude
- Impact of refinery investments and maintenance schedules on country/regional utilisation and product balances
Retail Fuels Service Tool, including:
- Forecasts for oil product demand by country out to 2050
- Retail gasoline and diesel outlook out to 2050
- Biodiesel and biogasoline demand and outlook out to 2050
- Forecasts for car population by fuel type (gasoline, diesel, hybrids, electric vehicles) out to 2050
- Service stations numbers, retail fuel market share and market effectiveness by company.
Our Refined Products Wholesale and Retail Markets Services are designed for a range of users needing comprehensive insights of the market and its future evolution. Whether you are a market analyst, strategic planner, financial or investment analyst, in charge of business development or merger and acquisitions, our services will support your commercial and strategic decisions.
Contact an expert
The refining and oil product markets are complex, with many parameters such as crude oil supply and price, demand developments, environmental regulation and technology and investment trends. Get in touch with one of our experts today to learn how our service can help you evaluate opportunities and mitigate risks.
