• The Edge

  Challenges to tight oil’s growth as spend tapers

  • 01 10月 2019

  How is US tight oil performing in this febrile environment? Simon Flowers asks R.T. Dukes and his team of Lower 48 researchers.

• The Edge

  Saudi attack, geopolitics and oil markets

  • 20 9月 2019

  The attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure took out over 5% of global oil supply and temporarily pushed up prices by 20%. What does the attack say about the security of oil’s supply chain?

• The Edge

  Challenges in a growing LNG market

  • 17 9月 2019

  LNG is on track for prodigious growth in the next two decades. Is the traditional business model that’s worked for six decades fit for purpose? How should a 21st-century LNG player tool up to maximise value?

• The Edge

  How to kick the hydrocarbon habit

  • 10 9月 2019

  Three steps to tackling climate change

• Editorial

  Petrobras has turned a corner. But can it deliver peer-leading growth?

  • 18 8月 2019

  Raphael Portela and Michael Stinebaugh, research analysts at Wood Mackenzie's Corporate Research team, share key highlights of Petrobras' latest corporate report.

• Opinion

  Revisiting the landmark Caspian Sea agreement

  • 06 9月 2019

  A year since the much-anticipated Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea was signed, how much has changed?

• Opinion

  Notes from URTeC and our views on development cubes and in-basin sand

  • 26 8月 2019

  Listen to the latest episode of Crude For Thought: Notes from URTeC and our views on development cubes and in-basin sand

• Featured

  How can Big Oil stay investible through the energy transition?

  • 28 8月 2019

  The threat of climate change represents an existential challenge to the Majors. If they are to remain investible – five, ten years from now – all will need to transition to business models that are aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Luke Parker, VP of Corporate Analysis, considers what that transition might look like.

• Featured

  Unlocking value from data: lessons from data-savvy industries

  • 07 8月 2019

  Financial services industries have been relying on consortiums for decades to get the most out of their data. What began as a way to streamline data now informs industry best practice.

• Featured

  Tight oil or deepwater: which is more valuable?

  • 23 7月 2019

  Deepwater and tight oil project economics are often presented differently. But what happens if we use the same investment metrics to evaluate both?

• Editorial

  North America crude markets, the outlook for oil and the Russian gas route to market

  • 30 7月 2019

  Hot topics from our most popular reports: Permian cube development potential, a long-term outlook for oils and Russian gas infrastructure and production hotspots

• Editorial

  Permian basin GOR: recalibrating US gas production models

  • 09 7月 2019

  Rising Permian gas-to-oil ratios hold huge implications for the US gas production outlook. Natural gas pipelines, flaring and Waha basis are all impacted.

• Opinion

  How to create value through oil and gas acquisitions in the North Sea

  • 15 7月 2019

  The years between 2012 and 2018 saw frenetic M&A activity in the UK North Sea. Our team of North Sea analysts looked back at the 55 biggest deals announced during that period to learn how value was created.

• Editorial

  Tight oil M&A: after Anadarko, remember small deals too

  • 15 7月 2019

  Tight oil M&A is all about arbitrage. Private equity-backed operators have a lot to prove. The US shale M&A landscape is perking up in lower price ranges.

• Featured

  URTeC 2019 survival of the fittest blog

  • 10 7月 2019

  Wood Mackenzie is pleased to take part in URTeC 2019, where we'll share the tools you need to survive the evolving unknowns in today's shale oil landscape.

• The Edge

  Deepwater investment bounces back

  • 25 6月 2019

  Upstream investment is set to rise for the third year in a row following the 2016 low, albeit at a modest, single-digit rate. Learn more about the sources of growth.

• Editorial

  Natural gas prices enter extreme negative territory in the Permian

  • 12 6月 2019

  The Permian natural gas spot price continues to enter new frontiers in 2019. The pipeline constraints that sparked extreme negative Permian daily prices first appeared in late March and early April.

• Editorial

  A balancing act: developing successful fiscal terms

  • 06 6月 2019

  What does it take to develop successful fiscal terms?

• Opinion

  What’s next for Chevron?

  • 17 6月 2019

  Chevron walked away from its bid for Anadarko, but it is still in an enviable position. What will the Supermajor do next? Analysis by Tom Ellacott.

• Featured

  Why explorers are in the grip of an existential crisis

  • 17 6月 2019

  What's the role for the exploration industry as the energy transition takes long-term oil growth off the agenda? Andrew Latham, vice president of global exploration, asks if there's room for explorers in a low-carbon future in this new report. Fill in the form to get your complimentary copy.

• Editorial

  How does conventional exploration fit into portfolios in the shale era?

  • 17 5月 2019

  Conventional exploration is back in the money for the first time since the downturn. Today, there's a new context.

• Featured

  IMO 2020 - Countdown to 1 January 2020

  • 07 6月 2019

  The implementation date for the IMO’s global fuel sulphur content cap is not far away. How will these changes affect the downstream, upstream, LNG and bulks sectors? And how prepared is the industry? Our experts share their views in this webinar.

• Featured

  Why tight oil and deepwater are more similar than you think

  • 24 6月 2019

  Angus Rodger, research director for Asia Pacific, lays out the differences and similarities between tight oil and deepwater in this new report. Read the key points and then get access to your full and complimentary copy of the report.

• Editorial

  Anadarko's Permian acreage: a prize worth fighting for

  • 26 4月 2019

  Just how attractive is the rock underneath Anadarko's assets?

• Featured

  Hell or high water in the Permian Basin?

  • 16 4月 2019

  From sourcing to disposal, water is becoming the largest challenge to field development in the Permian Basin.

• Editorial

  Chevron buys Anadarko in US$50bn cash-and-stock deal

  • 12 4月 2019

  With Chevron’s US$50 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of Anadarko, the big three becomes the big four.

• News Release

  Latin America’s natural gas deficit to grow as new resource production remains a challenge

  • 03 5月 2023

  With several challenges facing new gas developments in Latin America, supply will be unable to keep up with demand, driving the need for expanded imports to the region over the next decade, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie.

• Webinar

  One last hurrah? Is Africa’s upstream sector on the rebound?

  • 31 5月 2023

  Please join our experts as they cover key themes in Africa Upstream on 31st May 2023

• News Release

  With $9B BM-C-33 FID in Brazil, Equinor to increase its deepwater production outside of Norway to 400,000 boe/d by end of the decade

  • 09 5月 2023

  Addressing Equinor’s announced final investment decision (FID) for Brazil’s $9 billion BM-C-33 project, Luiz Hayum, senior research analyst, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa Upstream Oil and Gas, said “The BM-C-33 is Equinor’s second FID in a long list of justified for development deepwater projects outside Norway. Once sanctioned, these projects will increase Equinor’s operated deepwater production outside Norway from near zero to 400,000 boe/d by the end of the decade.”

• News Release

  Woodside announces Trion field FID, Mexico’s first deepwater oilfield development

  • 22 6月 2023

  Addressing Woodside’s announced final investment decision (FID) of Trion field, Diego Alviso Becerril, Senior Research Analyst, Upstream Research LATAM, said “This will be Woodside’s first incursion into Mexican waters and Mexico’s first deepwater oil field development. With first oil scheduled for 2028, the development concept considers a US$7.2 billion investment to recover 479 million barrels of equivalent (mmboe).”