• Opinion

  Middle East oil & gas operators in a better position to weather the storm than global peers

  • 17 4月 2020

  Oil revenues have collapsed and country finances are looking bleak. How will the Middle East fare through the crisis?

• Opinion

  Setback or shock: when will plastics demand bounce back from coronavirus?

  • 08 4月 2020

  The coronavirus outbreak has stunted economic growth, but what is the impact on polymer value chains?

• Opinion

  Electric vehicles: coronavirus wreaks havoc across the supply chain

  • 08 4月 2020

  Global EV sales could see a 43% drop, while battery raw materials markets face major disruption in 2020.

• Opinion

  Lessons from the first 100 percent battery-electric bus fleet in the US

  • 02 4月 2020

  The Antelope Valley Transit Authority in Southern California plans to be the first public transit agency in the United States to operate a 100 percent battery-electric bus fleet.

• Opinion

  The coronavirus crisis: assessing the impact on energy

  • 27 3月 2020

  Demand for oil, gas and power is recovering in China, but falling sharply in the rest of the world. The coronavirus pandemic has already had a profound impact on energy, with oil prices plunging and companies taking an axe to their capital spending plans. But the implications of the crisis are only just starting to emerge.

• Opinion

  Why upstream operators must accelerate cost reduction measures

  • 01 4月 2020

  It’s time for the rapier as well as the broadsword. Better visibility of third party spend may be vital

• Opinion

  Could clean energy be the winner in the oil price war?

  • 24 3月 2020

  How will the oil price crash affect the embryonic energy transition efforts of oil and gas companies? Renewable energy economics suddenly look far more attractive.

• Opinion

  Tight oil in turmoil

  • 18 3月 2020

  Tight oil producers are dealing with prices half of what the sector was founded on. The worst positioned won’t survive this downturn.

• Opinion

  Five ways the coronavirus changed the world of energy this week

  • 20 3月 2020

  The US government is starting to buy crude and facing calls for it to manage the oil market, as demand continues to weaken. In this week's Energy Pulse by Ed Crooks.

• Opinion

  How will the oil price crash affect the ethylene cost curve?

  • 17 3月 2020

  Changing oil price dynamics add an extra dimension to ethylene’s overcapacity outlook.

• Opinion

  How Italy’s lockdown is affecting power demand

  • 18 3月 2020

  Italy is the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. This has led to a sudden and significant drop in power demand. What does that tell us about what’s to come in other markets?

• Opinion

  Market oversupply and new LNG FID progress

  • 06 3月 2020

  In this episode of The LNG Big Chill podcast, we discuss how Covid-19 is hitting an already oversupplied LNG market, whether we will see more cancellations of US LNG cargoes and what this uncertainty means for LNG project FIDs.

• Opinion

  Why 2020 is the crunch year for climate risk reporting

  • 06 3月 2020

  How the taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures is changing the way corporations communicate with investors

• Opinion

  Middle East boosts its unconventional gas resources

  • 04 3月 2020

  In this month's episode of the MENA in Brief podcast, Ian Thom and his guests discuss unconventional gas project announcements in Saudi Arabia and UAE.

• Opinion

  Climate change, indoor farming and implications for electricity demand

  • 03 3月 2020

  In addition to high capital and operating costs and a lack of crop diversity, a major issue is energy intensity and associated carbon emissions.

• Opinion

  Why offshore wind will attract more than US$211 billion between 2020 and 2025

  • 03 3月 2020

  While the oil and gas sector remains the largest for the offshore supply chain, we expect the offshore wind market to grow more attractive for traditional oil and gas players. Here are three things offshore supply chain investors need to know.

• Opinion

  How the coronavirus highlights the perils of the US-China trade war

  • 25 2月 2020

  The risks to supply chains posed by the COVID-19 outbreak do not present a strong case for economic decoupling.

• Opinion

  Where next for exploration in Asia Pacific?

  • 18 2月 2020

  Reports of the death of exploration have been greatly exaggerated. Since the 2014 oil price downturn, the industry has re-imagined exploration. Spend has halved since its peak, and only the boldest exploration teams now take difficult wells in tough locations to their investment committees.

• Opinion

  Coronavirus to disrupt China’s chemicals sector more than SARS

  • 20 2月 2020

  A less favourable economic backdrop means Covid-19 looks set to have a bigger impact than the 2003 SARS outbreak did.

• Opinion

  The legacy of Australia’s bushfires

  • 11 2月 2020

  It’s impossible not to be moved by the human and environmental disaster wreaked by recent fires across so much of eastern and southern Australia. For those of us outside the country, the harrowing images on television and the internet of course tell only a fraction of the story. Through the incredible dedication of Australia’s firefighters – both professionals and volunteers – and recent rainfall, the bushfires mercifully now appear be coming under control.

• Opinion

  UK North Sea decommissioning: the £17 billion challenge

  • 24 2月 2020

  Over the next decade, the UK’s decommissioning bill will be the largest of any country in the world. We explore the three of the biggest issues facing operators as they prepare to decommission UK assets.

• Opinion

  The all-electric movement goes to war against gas

  • 07 2月 2020

  The all-electric movement threatens future gas demand, OPEC+ oil producers consider an output cut, and the warm winter is hitting gas prices.

• Opinion

  Electric vehicle growth set to accelerate through the 2020s

  • 13 2月 2020

  Cheaper batteries, faster charging and greater ranges will make the 2020s the decade of the electric vehicle. Latest analysis from Ram Chandrasekaran.

• Opinion

  How will geopolitics influence global oil supply in 2020?

  • 10 2月 2020

  After a turbulent start to the year, geopolitical factors around the world could have a significant impact on the oil market outlook this year.

• Opinion

  Libya’s oil blockade – and the million b/d loss in exports

  • 03 2月 2020

  In this month's episode of the MENA in Brief podcast, Ian Thom and Toushar Chakrabarty discuss the impact of the blockade on Libyan oil exports.

• Opinion

  US-China trade deal flatters to deceive

  • 21 1月 2020

  Beijing’s commitment to purchase an additional $52.4 billion of energy from the US creates a huge opportunity, but is it realistic and what could be the consequences?

• Opinion

  2019 in review: 5 trends that shook the petrochemical markets

  • 17 12月 2019

  As 2019 draws to a close, we look at the trends that jolted the industry over the past year.

• Opinion

  Solar technology got cheaper and better in the 2010s. Now what?

  • 18 12月 2019

  No other power-generation technology matched solar’s pace of cost reduction this past decade. The game will change again in the 2020s.

• Opinion

  Qatar’s LNG expansion: a bold move

  • 10 12月 2019

  In this episode of the MENA in Brief podcast, Ian Thom and his expert guests discuss Qatar Petroleum's plans to increase its LNG production capacity. And the gas resources at North Field have been upgraded – essentially doubling the size of what was already the world’s largest gas field.

• Opinion

  Are power markets helping or hindering the energy transition?

  • 28 11月 2019

  The rise of renewables and dispatchable demand is putting power markets to the test. A redesign is vital.