• Comment

  Wood Mackenzie commentary on India CERA Week

  • 09 10月 2017

  To mark the start of the India Energy Forum by CERA week, Wood Mackenzie analysts weigh in on the country's oil and gas outlook and production prospects.

• Comment

  Beach's production to increase 160% post Origin gas assets acquisition

  • 26 9月 2017

  Following the announcement of Beach Energy's US$1.25 million acquisition of Origin Energy’s subsidiary, Lattice Energy, our Australasia senior analyst Chris Meredith, weighs in on the deal.

• Comment

  Australian LNG Imports could make economic sense

  • 10 10月 2017

  Major eastern Australian gas buyer AGL has proposed to use a leased Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU), approximately 65km south of Melbourne, to import LNG and ease domestic gas shortage issues. This solution has faced mixed reviews given the already available domestic options, mainly the CSG-LNG projects in Queensland.

• News Release

  US-China agreement connects the fastest-growing LNG supplier with the largest LNG growth market

  • 12 5月 2017

  Chinese companies can now negotiate long-term contracts to source liquefied natural gas from US suppliers, the US Commerce Department said.

• News Release

  Seasonality takes centre stage in Egyptian gas market

  • 12 1月 2017

  Egypt's fortunes look set to change after five years of falling production and switching from a net exporter to a net importer.

• Comment

  Market implications of Chinese tariffs on US LNG

  • 03 8月 2018

  Today China announced retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion worth of American imports, in response to the Trump administration's latest trade threats. The list included a 25% tariff on LNG.

• Comment

  Energy storage market poised for a boom Down Under

  • 06 7月 2018

  Looking at behind-the-meter, Australia was the biggest residential storage market in the world in 2017, with a tripling of residential storage deployments over the previous year. High retail electricity rates and diminishing or expiring feed-in tariffs have encouraged residential solar customers to choose storage for self-consumption benefits. As a result, over the past few years, Australia has been the preferred testbed for new residential energy storage products, as several technology vendors have first introduced their residential product portfolios in the country.

• Comment

  US LNG deal 'could be significant for relationship with Europe'

  • 27 7月 2018

  What does the EU's agreement to buy US LNG - announced after a meeting between European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and US President Donald Trump - mean for producers and consumers?

• Comment

  China's retaliatory tariff on US LNG

  • 19 9月 2018

  In the 12 months up until June 2018, China was the second largest buyer of US LNG, accounting for approximately 3 mmtpa of US LNG, with Shell being the largest seller. However as the US-China trade dispute escalated, Chinese buyers have gradually reduced purchases of US LNG.

• Comment

  Qatar Petroleum's LNG plans get even bigger

  • 27 9月 2018

  Qatar Petroleum announces plans for a fourth LNG megatrain

• Comment

  New wave of growth on the horizon for Asia-Pacific's oil and gas sector

  • 15 10月 2018

  Asia-Pacific's oil and gas sector looks set to rebound over the next 12 months as rising demand, stronger commodity prices and an uptick in M&A activity bring greater confidence to the region. Wood Mackenzie predicts rising Asian LNG demand, the return of China's NOCs to growth mode and new appetite for upstream investment to be key factors influencing the sector, not only Asia-Pacific, but also globally into 2019.

• News Release

  Asia-Pacific solar demand to decline first time this year

  • 24 10月 2018

  After a decade of stellar growth, Wood Mackenzie forecasts that solar demand in the Asia-Pacific will decline for the first time this year. Compared to 2017, the region's solar demand will dip 18% to 59 GW in 2018 due to declining installations in China, India and Japan.

• News Release

  Is deepwater ready for cost inflation?

  • 27 11月 2018

  In a newly published report, Wood Mackenzie notes that the deepwater industry appears in good health, following a sustained cost reduction through the downturn. However this hard work is in danger of being undone, as impending cyclical cost inflation could raise break-even costs once again.

• News Release

  LNG markets move from oversupply as rebalancing gets under way

  • 07 6月 2018

  Wood Mackenzie's short-term global gas and LNG outlook (Q2 2018) sees the market rebalancing as it moves from oversupply, although the global natural resources consultancy believes prices will remain relatively sustained into 2019.

• Comment

  Tokyo Gas and Centrica deal indicates optimism returning to global LNG markets

  • 15 6月 2018

  Commenting on the announcement that Centrica and Tokyo Gas have signed a heads of agreement for LNG procurement, Giles Farrer, Wood Mackenzie Research Director, said:

• News Release

  China's LNG trucking capacity to double in medium term

  • 18 6月 2018

  Wood Mackenzie estimates LNG trucking capacity in China to double to 38 million tonnes (mt) by 2025. China is the world's largest LNG trucking market. In 2017, 19 mt of LNG was transported via tanker truck from domestic liquefaction plants and LNG import terminals to downstream markets. This volume accounts for 12% of total gas consumption.

• Editorial

  Australasia - Five themes to look out for in 2019

  • 19 12月 2018

  As 2018 draws to a close, Wood Mackenzie's experts discusses five key themes to look out for in Australasia's oil and gas industry in 2019.

• Comment

  Full steam ahead for Tortue FLNG

  • 21 12月 2018

  Sanctioning the Tortue FLNG project, offshore Mauritania/Senegal is a 'major milestone' for BP and its partners

• Opinion

  Does Germany need LNG?

  • 19 3月 2019

  Proposals to build a German LNG import terminal have gathered momentum. Does the country need its own supply of LNG?

• Editorial

  Chevron picks up immediate LNG growth opportunity

  • 23 4月 2019

  Chevron's planned $50 billion acquisition of Anadarko is much more than a Permian acreage play.

• News Release

  LNG primed for US$200bn capex boom

  • 25 4月 2019

  The liquefied natural gas (LNG) boom is back. Over the next two years, almost 90 million tonnes per annum (mmtpa) of LNG is expected to take final investment decision (FID) and start construction. New research from Wood Mackenzie show that capital expenditure - for both LNG plant and upstream infrastructure - will total more than US$200 billion between 2019 and 2025. This will provide a major boost to engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors and other providers along the supply chain.

• Webinar

  Webinar: IMO 2020 impact on upstream producers, LNG and bulks

  • 07 5月 2019

  Join us on this upcoming webinar where our industry experts will discuss how and where the ripples will be felt as we edge nearer to the implementation date of 1st January 2020.

• News Release

  Australia's next wave of LNG projects needs to compete to progress

  • 28 5月 2019

  According to research by Wood Mackenzie, a second wave of LNG investments is building, both in Australia and globally, and these projects need to compete to progress

• Opinion

  Renewables, market intervention and exploration – three themes weighing on Australia upstream players' minds

  • 13 6月 2019

  Having attended many APPEA events in the past, this was the first time renewable energy sources - hydrogen in particular - were put under the spotlight.

• News Release

  Argentina LNG exports positioned to meet peak demand in Asia

  • 13 6月 2019

  Rising natural gas production in Argentina, coupled with competitive global LNG transportation costs, is expected to position the country as an emerging source of gas supply to Asia during peak demand periods, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie.

• News Release

  Mozambique LNG under starter’s orders

  • 18 6月 2019

  US independent Anadarko Petroleum today formally sanctioned its Mozambican liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, Mozambique LNG. Anadarko is developing Mozambique’s first onshore LNG facility, initially consisting of two LNG trains with a total nameplate capacity of 12.88 million tonnes per annum (mmtpa). Feedgas comes from the Golfinho/Atum field, in Offshore Area 1.

• News Release

  Malaysia offers significant gas opportunities

  • 24 6月 2019

  According to research by natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, Malaysia offers some of the most material and attractive upstream investment opportunities in Southeast Asia, primarily due to the need for additional gas supply.

• Webinar

  Webinar | The deepwater recovery: are we entering a new cycle?

  • 18 7月 2019

  Please join the Upstream Supply Chain team's upcoming webinar to hear the latest forecasts and trends driving the offshore oil and gas market.

• Comment

  Abadi LNG gets greenlight for revised Plan of Development

  • 15 7月 2019

  The Government of Indonesia has approved the revised Plan of Development for the Abadi LNG project. INPEX (operator, 65%) and Shell (35%) will develop Abadi via an offshore production facility and a 9.5 million tonnes per annum (mmpta) onshore LNG plant, at an estimated cost of US$20 billion.

• News Release

  Japan to lose top LNG importer position to China by 2022

  • 23 7月 2019

  According to a new report by Wood Mackenzie, Japan could lose its pole position as the world’s top LNG importer to China as early as 2022.