• Featured

  3 reasons Corpus Christi will dominate US crude exports

  • 11 6月 2019

  Port Corpus Christi has started a massive dredging project to make its channels deeper and wider. The result? Bigger tankers will call the port, and constrained crude exports have room to grow.

• Editorial

  North America gas: could LNG project delays dampen prices further?

  • 28 5月 2019

  Low prices may be the best cure for North American gas markets.

• Editorial

  Permian M&A: place your bets on the next takeover target

  • 21 5月 2019

  More mergers are coming.

• Editorial

  Latin America's gasoline problems: Mexico and Brazil diverge in fuel balance strategy

  • 15 5月 2019

  The two dominant players in Latin American oil and gas – Petrobras and Pemex – should face negative net gasoline balance for decades to come.

• Editorial

  Northeast gas production: are operators running out of steam?

  • 10 5月 2019

  After seven years of surging production growth, Northeast gas producers are starting to slow their output.

• Editorial

  How the bottom of the barrel became the top of refining margins

  • 29 4月 2019

  Despite the international phase-out for fuel oil, its crack spread hit 20-year highs

• Content

  OTC 2019

  • 30 4月 2019

  What's going on at #OTC50? Wood Mackenzie research analysts offer their live reactions to the buzz at the 50th Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. Follow live updates #WOODMACLIVE.

• Featured

  Coming to Americas: deepwater after the downturn

  • 03 5月 2019

  Deepwater investment interest soured after the global oil-price crash of 2014. What were some of the lessons learned by governments, companies and the key stakeholders throughout this crucial time of development for the Americas deepwater sector?

• The Edge

  Permian consolidation heats up and there's more to come

  • 07 5月 2019

  Anadarko bids echo the big M&A themes of the downturn. Simon Flowers investigates.

• Editorial

  Shale frackers face uphill battle with increasing well declines

  • 09 4月 2019

  The explosive expansion of American shale oil production is becoming unsustainable for North American companies from Texas to North Dakota.

• Featured

  Benchmarking the Eagle Ford play

  • 22 4月 2019

  As institutional investors' demands for E&P capital discipline intensify this year, upstream companies have reined in spending and softened aspirations for production growth. Underperformers are at top of mind as investors assess financial risks.

• The Edge

  The automotive sector – twists on the road to transition

  • 02 4月 2019

  The future of light vehicles is electric; in time, perhaps autonomous. But the disruption won’t be quick, and the rise of the EV won’t be linear. Get our analysis here.

• Editorial

  Is there any more upside to summer Henry Hub prices?

  • 26 3月 2019

  North American natural gas storage levels haven't ended the season this low since the historic Polar Vortex in the winter of 2013-2014.

• The Edge

  Tight oil news: Majors go bullish as Independents rein in

  • 12 3月 2019

  The Permian is being industrialised – fact. Chevron and ExxonMobil aggressively raised production targets this week, underlining the basin’s potential for growth.

• Content

  Peak Permian?

  • 18 2月 2019

  As highlighted by the Wall Street Journal this week, Wood Mackenzie spotted this troubling trend in 2017, predicting that parent-child well issues could wipe out more than 1.5 million b/d of projected Permian production.

• Opinion

  How will US independents answer the call for capital discipline?

  • 14 2月 2019

  Investors in the Lower 48 E&P sector are demanding greater capital discipline. US Independents are under pressure to deliver returns, free cash flow and demonstrate meaningful capital discipline. New research from Wood Mackenzie shows that in the tug-of-war between value and volume, value has emerged as the winner.

• Featured

  Technology giants top list in bumper year for corporate procurement

  • 01 2月 2019

  2018 was the biggest year on record for corporate procurement of renewables in the US. With corporate and industrial (C&I) procurement now a major driver of both wind and solar in the US market, we highlight key trends to watch.

• The Edge

  Who needs to beef up Permian tight oil exposure?

  • 29 1月 2019

  US tight oil has been the biggest theme in the upstream M&A market over the last three years. We've mined our US L48 database of companies’ exposure to the basin, making a judgement on the depth and quality of portfolios by ranking metrics such as production growth, experience, productivity, variability, capital efficiency, asset size and location.

• Editorial

  Will 2019 be another tumultuous year for the North American polyester industry?

  • 13 12月 2018

  Will 2019 be another tumultuous year for the North American polyester industry? Dr. Michael Bermish looks at what the six key issues will be in 2019.

• Featured

  Are frontier plays worth the risk?

  • 06 6月 2018

  With deepwater project economics becoming competitive to tight oil and a renewed international interest in such areas as deepwater Mexico and pre-salt Brazil, exploration is once again in the limelight.

• Editorial

  Renate Featherstone speaks to Dukascopy TV on the recent steel tariffs

  • 21 3月 2018

  US steel tariffs are on their way. We discuss what that means for global producers, buyers and sellers.

• The Edge

  Future cost of new oil supply: shale vs conventional

  • 20 3月 2018

  How much new oil does the world need over the next decade? Where are the competitive plays? What are the economic breakeven prices? Our chief analyst, Simon Flowers, explores in the latest edition of The Edge.

• The Edge

  Tight oil set to make money in 2018

  • 13 2月 2018

  A teenage growth spurt – US onshore liquids production is on a tear again. Already rebounding from the downturn for a year, right now it’s turbo-charged.

• The Edge

  Mexico upstream – hot as a habanero

  • 07 2月 2018

  Mexico is hot – as hot as a habanero, the spiciest of Mexicano chillies. The bidding round for deep water blocks this week has attracted a who’s who of industry players, scooping up two-thirds of the blocks on offer.

• The Edge

  Rising US oil exports, market disruption, Brent-WTI spread

  • 30 1月 2018

  What will US tight oil growth do to crude markets? The build-up in volumes early this decade led to a supply glut that undermined prices in 2014.

• The Edge

  Growing pains – diminishing returns from tight oil wells

  • 07 11月 2017

  US tight oil’s second phase of growth is well underway. We expect tight oil production to double from 4.7 million b/d today to around 9.5 million b/d in the mid-2020s – and our view is by no means the most bullish.

• Editorial

  Everything is faster in the Permian - including decline rates

  • 11 12月 2018

  Listen to Crude For Thought, episode 43: Everything is faster in the Permian - including decline rates

• The Edge

  Could US gas producers capture more margin?

  • 28 11月 2018

  A year of torpor, then the US gas market springs into life. Henry Hub price has shot up to over US$4.50/mmbtu in a volatile week after flat-lining below US$3/mmbtu since last March. What does this mean for global gas markets?

• Editorial

  It’s time for midstream companies to explore renewable energy

  • 12 8月 2020

  Midstream companies can be energy-intense, particularly if their operations include processing infrastructure.

• Editorial

  California's power market balancing act

  • 14 8月 2020

  Why the state won't let go of nine gas plants set to retire this year