Asset Benchmarking Tools (ABTs)

Understand asset profitability, commercial performance and the strategic drivers of competitive positioning.

Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Packaging

Understand the commercial and strategic drivers of PET and Recycled PET supply and demand, price forecasts and leading market trends.

Polypropylene

Get a comprehensive view of global supply/demand, price, and petrochemical feedstock trends.

Recycled PET

Understand the commercial and strategic drivers of Recycled PET supply and demand, price forecasts and leading market trends.

Polyester Film (BOPET)

Analyse global trends in biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate (BOPET) films for strategic insights and an understanding of global demand and pricing.

Polypropylene Film (BOPP)

Gain insights into key supply/demand drivers and identify growth opportunities in plastic films including cast polypropylene and BOPP film.

Refinery-petrochemical integration disrupts gas-based cracker feedstock advantage

• 25 4月 2023

Gas-based feedstocks are the traditional investment driver for steam cracker investments, but with feedstock availability becoming more challenging the economics are under scrutiny.

炼化一体化

• 07 9月 2020

从独特的视角深入了解炼化一体化资产

Are we losing sight of the value of plastics?

• 13 8月 2018

There's currently a lot of talk about plastic and the use of plastic, particularly in food and drinks packaging. Helen discusses the challenge of re-educating consumers about the value of plastic.

The big ban: global commodities in a post-Ukraine-war world

• 16 6月 2022

War in Ukraine is transforming the outlook for the supply, demand and price of hydrocarbons and the pace and cost of the energy transition. Read more.

Coronavirus Guide

• 03 3月 2020

How might coronavirus impact global energy and commodity markets? Our team of experts from across the energy value chain are monitoring the immediate and future impact of coronavirus on global commodity and energy markets. 

Shell 'to be net-zero company by 2050'

• 16 4月 2020

Commenting after Shell announced its intention to become net-zero company by 2050, Luke Parker, vice president, corporate analysis, at Wood Mackenzie, said: “This is an evolution of the net carbon footprint ambition that Shell unveiled in November 2017.

European olefins production could recover in 2020 despite coronavirus

• 30 4月 2020

Europe saw a 20-year low in olefins production in 2019. Despite the coronavirus hitting demand, 2020 could show a recovery in production.

Oil supply cuts could curtail 15% of ethylene supply in Middle East

• 13 5月 2020

Approximately 15% of ethane-based ethylene supply in the Middle East could be lost this year due to oil supply dynamics, according to new analysis from Wood Mackenzie. This equates to around 1.5 million tons of ethylene.

Global appetite for plastics key to China’s polyolefins demand growth in 2020

• 28 5月 2020

Much of China’s polyolefins demand growth in 2020 will depend on global appetite for plastic end-products, says Wood Mackenzie.

BP sells petrochemicals business to INEOS in US$5bn deal

• 29 6月 2020

Steve Jenkins, vice president of Wood Mackenzie’s petrochemicals team, comments on this morning’s announcement from BP that it is selling its petrochemicals business to INEOS in a US$5 billion deal.

US winter storm impacts on the polyester value chain

• 18 2月 2021

As the US deals with this week’s winter storm, refining and petrochemicals outages could have an impact on the global polyester chain, according to Wood Mackenzie.

Texas deep freeze: lingering impacts on US petrochemical industry

• 19 3月 2021

Last month’s winter storm paralysed the US petrochemical industry. Operations at US Gulf Coast petrochemical facilities have yet to fully recover one month after freezing temperatures triggered wide-spread power outages and plant shutdowns.

Packaging redesign could reduce global plastic demand by 20% by 2050

• 10 6月 2021

Plastic packaging redesign, which includes elimination, substitution and reuse approaches, could reduce global plastic packaging demand in 2050 from 190MT to 150MT, according to a new analysis from Wood Mackenzie’s Cross-Polymer Demand Model.

What would an EU carbon border adjustment mechanism mean?

• 14 7月 2021

The EU Commission proposed a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) as part of today’s “Fit for 55” package. James Whiteside, global head of multi-commodity research at Wood Mackenzie, said: “As the first mechanism of its kind, the CBAM is being designed in consultation with industry to avoid unintended consequences. “A CBAM that does not cover a substantial portion of the production chain will encourage carbon leakage - pushing emissions beyond the borders of the EU or shifting competition between EU and non-EU producers to the next stage of the value chain.”

Decarbonising plastic value chains remains Herculean task

• 26 7月 2021

Despite the ‘war on plastics’, demand over the coming decades will be robust, underpinned by the growing global middle-class and the material requirements of the energy transition.

High carbon tax could erode up to 60% of Asia’s refining earnings

• 05 10月 2021

A high carbon tax could erode up to 60% of Asia’s total refining earnings by 2027, says Wood Mackenzie, at the Global Energy Summit Focus Week.

The plastics industry must go under the knife for a more sustainable future

• 18 11月 2021

Stemming the flow of plastics into the environment will need ‘more than a nip and tuck approach’ if the world is to reach peak plastic and meet the net zero challenge, says Wood Mackenzie.

Redesign biggest opportunity to clean up plastic packaging as sector GHG emissions predicted to rise 75% by 2040

• 21 2月 2022

Plastic pollution caught and maintained the world’s attention in the mid-2010s as images of marine environments ravaged by deposits of disposed plastic led global governments and corporations to commit to improving the circular plastic economy.

Complete ban on Russian commodity exports accelerate LNG growth and energy transition

• 16 6月 2022

War in Ukraine is transforming the outlook for the supply, demand and price of hydrocarbons and the pace and cost of the energy transition. While the precise timing and implementation of future bans on Russian commodity imports are difficult to predict, a rewriting of energy trade flows is now underway.

Waste-based biofuels could be the key to unlocking the energy transition

• 18 8月 2022

Waste-based biofuels could be a key driver of the energy transition transforming today’s limited supply of low carbon transportation fuels and creating a local, circular economy, according to a new report by Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq:VRSK).

The Australian energy crisis highlights the need for new gas supply

• 29 8月 2022

With prices soaring 400%, government is challenged to find the delicate balance of energy security and net zero goals

India's GST - A boon for oil markets?

• 16 11月 2017

The introduction of India's Goods and Services Tax (GST) has lifted oil demand in the country this year. Crude oil, natural gas, diesel and gasoline are currently exempt from the GST. However, diesel and gasoline demand are indirectly affected by the impact of GST on vehicle prices and sales, especially in the logistics sector.

China's waste plastic ban could pave way for South East Asia's dominance

• 04 12月 2017

The sub region of South East Asia could potentially become a world leader in importing plastic waste, according to PCI Wood Mackenzie's 'RPET China Study – China Waste Import Ban 2017'.

Global Polyethylene Markets: 6 Key Things to Look For in 2018

• 16 1月 2018

The year 2018 will be recorded as the "transition year" for the polyethylene industry. Widely anticipated North American polyethylene resin will hit the global markets, China's ban on importing scrap plastic will challenge the prevailing trends, and new tax structures in the United States and India will show its full impact on the plastic industry.